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To Find the Baruya Story: an Anthropologist at Work with a New Guinea Tribe

Stephen Olsson
1982 United States 63 minutes undetermined

The work of the anthropologist Maurice Godelier with the Baruyas of New Guinea. Film material shot from 1969 onwards alternates with present-day commentary by Godelier.We can therefore gradually follow the approach and methods of an anthropologist and get to know the Baruya, thanks to the personal relations he has established with them.

Production :
Stephen Olsson; Allison Jablonko
Distribution :
Documentary Educational Resources (D.E.R.)
Editing :
Stephen Olsson; Scott Andrews
Sound :
Allison Jablonko
Photography :
Marek Jablonko; Jérôme Blumberg