Title Singing pictures / by Aditi Nath Sarkar, ÁkosÖstör and Lina Fruzzetti

Published Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2005

Online access available from: Ethnographic Video Online    View Resource Record

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 min.) Series Ethnographic video online, volume 1 Summary For generations, Patua (Chitrakar) communities of West Bengal, India have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The Patuas tell the stories of Muslim saints (pirs and fakirs) as well as Hindu Gods and Goddesses, and offer devotion to saints at Muslim shrines Notes Previously released on DVD Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 23, 2010) Event Recorded in Noya, Midnapore, West Bengal, India Subject Juang (Indic people) -- Social conditions. Patas (Art) -- India -- Midnapore (District) Women -- India -- Midnapore (District) -- Social conditions. Genre/Form Documentary Video recordings. Form Streaming video Author Fruzzetti, Lina. Östör, Ákos. Sarkar, Aditi Nath.

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