| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 33 min.) |
| Series |
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 1 |
| Summary |
To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Event |
Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1982 |
| Notes |
In English |
| In |
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1982 |
| Subject |
Haitian Americans.
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Haitian Americans.
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| Genre/Form |
Internet videos.
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Internet videos.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Kramer, Karen, author, film director
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Lowenthal, Ira, author
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Genke, John, narrator
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