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Title Releasing the spirits : a village cremation in Bali / produced by [the] Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University and Documentary Educational Resources
Published Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, [1990]

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (43 min.))
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary About a group of villagers in Central Bali in who cooperated to carry out a group cremation in 1978. Shows the way they approached this task, including preparations as well as the cycle of rituals : the cremation, post-cremation, & casting of the ashes into the ocean. Most of the narration is by the four participants, recorded as they were watching videotapes of the ceremonies 2 years later
Event Videocassette release of the 1979 film
Notes Dialogue in Balinese; narration and subtitles in English, subtitles translated from Balinese
Print version record
Subject Cremation -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Mourning customs -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Spiritualism -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Cremation.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Mourning customs.
Spiritualism.
SUBJECT Bali (Indonesia : Province) -- Religious life and customs
Subject Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Jero Tapakan.
Connor, Linda, 1950-
Asch, Timothy.
Asch, Patsy.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Australian National University. Department of Anthropology.