La Fumigation de Boyangi – Yakpata guérisseur pygmée
Yakpata, a Pygmy Healer
1988
France
8 minutes
no words
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
CNRS Images; Lacito Langues et civilisations à tradition orale; Cathode vidéo
Editing :
Alain Epelboin
Alain Epelboin
Sound :
Alain Epelboin
Alain Epelboin
Photography :
Alain Epelboin
Alain Epelboin