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Title The Ainu bear ceremony
Published London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (29 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
Summary The RAI has reedited the original film of this ceremony among the Ainu people of Japan. In the bear ceremony, now no longer performed, a specially reared bear was reverently killed and its flesh and blood eaten by the participants. The film shows a series of ritual acts with some commentary on their meaning
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 23, 2013)
This edition in English
Subject Ainu -- Rites and ceremonies
Ainu -- Religion.
Ainu -- Social life and customs
Bears -- Religious aspects.
Ainu -- Religion.
Ainu -- Social life and customs.
Bears -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Munro, Neil Gordon, 1863-1942, director.
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, producer.