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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 16 min.) |
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The Balinese cremation ceremony, or ngaben, has primarily been known in the West as either a major tourist attraction that dazzles visitors with the splendor, intricacy, and drama of its performance, or as fodder for long-standing anthropological arguments about personhood and emotion on the island that debated whether or not Balinese people expressed, or even experienced, grief. According to Balinese Hindu beliefs, cremation is one of the most important steps in a person's spiritual life, and a heavy responsibility to the family, because it is through cremation that the physical body is returned to its five constituent elements and the soul is cleansed and released from the body to ascend to heaven and be reincarnated. Ngaben: emotion and restraint in a Balinese heart takes an impressionistic look at the ngaben from the perspective of a mourning son, Nyoman Asub, and reveals the intimacy, sadness, and tenderness at the core of this funerary ritual and the feeling and force that underlie an exquisite cultural tradition. Amidst ample cultural and interpretive understandings of the cremation ceremony, the film purposefully provides a personalistic, impressionistic, and poetic glimpse of the process and the complex emotions involved. Filmmaker: Robert Lemelson |
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Title from title frames |
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Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2012 |
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Balinese (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs
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Cremation.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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Documentary films.
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funerals.
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Balinese (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs
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Cremation
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Documentary films
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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documentary film.
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Documentary films
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Short films
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Short films.
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Documentary films.
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Courts métrages.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Lemelson, Robert, 1961- producer
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