Gelede : a Yoruba masquerade

Gelede : a Yoruba masquerade / directed by Peggy Harper, Frank Speed.

Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and Dahomey the Gelede cult honours the earth spirits, the ancestors and especially the Great Mother. The festival filmed here emphasises the status of women and placated their potentially dangerous mystic powers. The commentary emphasises that the annual Gelede f...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harper, Peggy (Director), Speed, Francis (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: London : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1970.
Series:Ethnographic video online ; volume 1
Subjects:
Yoruba (African people) > Social life and customs.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and Dahomey the Gelede cult honours the earth spirits, the ancestors and especially the Great Mother. The festival filmed here emphasises the status of women and placated their potentially dangerous mystic powers. The commentary emphasises that the annual Gelede festival serves a cathartic role by paying respect to women in a patriarchal society. During the course of the festival social tensions are brought out into the open and ridiculed; antagonism between the sexes is thus controlled and given a legitimate outlet. The film shows the preparation of masks and the climax of the festival in which the Great Mask appears at midnight. On the following day the lesser masks entertain, satirising the movements of women.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 2, 2013).
Physical Description:1 online resource (22 min.).
Playing Time:00:22:00
Access:Access restricted to authorised ANU staff and students.
Language:This edition in English.

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