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Based on the Mexico Indigenous Regions in the New Millennium Ethnographic National Project
Contents from Originis TV Series web page
Between Darkness and Glory
Lent between Mayos in Sonora
Wind and Rain Dance
Asking for rain in Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
Tigers in the Mountain
Asking for rain in Guerrero Mountain
Devils’ Game
Dead Celebration in Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca
Ethnographic Documental Series
One of the objectives of anthropology is to make understandable foreign or strange ways of thinking. A useful tool to promote diverse forms of cultural expression is the documentary film.
Anthropological investigation reaches other ambits with Origins TV Series. It shows themes shared by humanity, expressed in different cultural forms, such as the need for rain or the struggle between good and evil.
Origins TV Series allow us knowing indigenous rites that only members of each group can attend. Camcorders register ancestral acts of faith that have merged with Catholic practices, present in celebrations like pilgrimage to Mixteca Alta ravines in quest for water; devil asking the dead to dance in Costa Chica; Nahua tigers in Guerrero Mountains and the chase of Yoreme Christ in Sonora desert.
Origins TV Series are based on deep research conducted by anthropologists from Mexico Indigenous Regions Ethnographic National Project.
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