Returning souls
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Hu Taili ;
- Editeurs : Watertown Documentary Educational Resources ;
- Date d'édition : 2013
- Sujets : Amis (peuple de Taiwan) -- DVD, Ethnologie, Identité collective, Films ethnographiques DVD Taiwan
- Langue(s) : Chinois, Austronésiennes, langues, Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD (1 h 25 min), Coul., son.
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Film en langue amis et chinois ; sous-titres en anglais ; Tourné à Taiwan
Résumé
Indiqué sur la jaquette : In the historically most famous ancestral house of the matrilineal Amis tribe in Taiwan, the carved pillars tell legends, such as the great flood, the glowing girl, the descending shaman sent by the Mother Sun, and the father-killing headhunting event. After a strong typhhoon toppled the house 40 years ago, the pillars were moved to the Institute of ethnology Museum. Recentlyyoung villagers, with assistance from female shamans, pushed the descendants and village representatives to communicate with ancestors in the pillars. They eventually brought the ancestral souls (rather than the pillars) back and began reconstructing the house. In an environment highly influenced by western religions, national land policy, and local politics, the dream of the young people for cultural revitalization and to bring back not only the ancestral souls but also of the village enountered many frustrations. This documentary interweaves reality and legends as well as the seen and the unseen as it records the unique case of repatriation.