To Find the Baruya Story: An Anthropologist at Work with a New Guinea Tribe
From the Baruya Series
by Alison and Marek Jablonko
(study guide available)
color, 59 min, 1982
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This multi-faceted film, photographed in both 1969 and 1982, illustrates an anthropologist's actual fieldwork methods and personal relationships among the Baruya, and provides and in-depth view of the Baruya's traditional salt-based economic system. The film follows Dr. Godelier in his attempt to understand the complexities of Baruya culture. He comments: "I have to find and bring together the different pieces of Baruya culture...That's my job, to find the story."
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Study Guide for the films To Find the Baruya Story and Her Name Came On Arrows
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