Title Altar of fire / produced by Robert Gardner and Frits Staal for the Film Study Center, Harvard University ; University of California Extension Media Center

Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (58 min.)) Series Ethnographic video online Summary Documentary film about a twelve-day ancient Vedic ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975 Event Originally produced in 1976 Notes Print version record Subject Agnicayana (Hindu rite) Sacrifice -- India -- Hinduism Agnicayana (Hindu rite) Sacrifice -- Hinduism. India. Genre/Form Documentary films. Ethnographic films. Nonfiction films. Documentary films. Ethnographic films. Nonfiction films. Form Streaming video Author Gardner, Robert, 1925-2014. Staal, Frits Harvard University. Film Study Center. University of California (System). Extension Media Center. Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

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