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Vero Tapakan – Stories From The Life Of A Balinese Healer

Timothy Asch
Linda Connor
Patsy Asch
1983 Australia; United States 26 minutes undetermined

Before becoming a healer, Vero Tapakan had a difficult life : she recounts her unhappy chilhood, how she left her husband and children to take to the road and become a pedlar. Later on, through mystical experiences, she became aware of her own “madness” and became a healer.

Production :
University of Southern California; Australian National University; Documentary Educational Resources (D.E.R.)
Distribution :
Documentary Educational Resources (D.E.R.); Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Editing :
Patsy Asch
Sound :
Linda Connor; Patsy Asch
Photography :
Timothy Asch

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