La Fumigation de Boyangi – Yakpata guérisseur pygmée

Yakpata, a Pygmy Healer

  • François Gaulier
  • Alain Epelboin
  • 1988
  • France
  • 8 minutes
  • no words
  • DR
    DR

Akungu, a Pygmy camp in the heart of a banana plantation in the Central African Republic. A baby is wracked by feverish convulsions. Yakpata, the medicine man uses friction and plant fumigation accompanied by incantations to forest spirits to cure the baby. Only then does the baby accept his mothers’ milk.

  • Production : CNRS Images; Lacito Langues et civilisations à tradition orale; Cathode vidéo
  • Editing : Alain Epelboin
  • Sound : Alain Epelboin
  • Photography : Alain Epelboin

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