Vero Tapakan – Stories From The Life Of A Balinese Healer

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

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