MARGOT DIAS: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS 1958-1961
Between 1958 and 1961, the anthropologist Margot Dias (1908-2001) shot 28 films in Mozambique and Angola, which belong to the Film Archive of the National Museum of Ethnology (Museu Nacional de Etnologia). These films were made within the "study Missions on the Ethnic Minorities of the Portuguese Overseas Territories" headed by Jorge Dias and represent one of the first uses of ethnographic film within Portuguese anthropological studies.
This edition includes all the films shot within those fieldwork campaigns and a soundtrack composed from Margot Dias's own field recordings. The identification and thematic organization of the films, as well as the soundtrack is the work of Catarina Alves Costa.
Also included, as a bonus feature, is a previously unreleased interview with Margot Dias, held in 1996 by Joaquim Pais de Brito, former director of the National Museum of Ethnology.
Contents
Format: DVD-PAL / Region 0
(No Regional Code)
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ASPECTS OF MAKUWA'S AND MAKONDE'S LIFE IN MOZAMBIQUE
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 7 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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ANTUPA VILLAGE
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 10 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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THE WAY TO NOLA'S FARM
(Netherlands, 1958)
Director: Manuel Viegas Guerreiro
• 5 minutes
• Color, B&W
• Sound
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MUSSA. A MAKONDE VILLAGE
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 2 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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THE MAKONDE VILLAGE OF ANTUPA. WOMAN PESTLING
(Netherlands, 1995)
• 3 minutes
• B&W
• Sound
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MAKONDE MAKING A COMB AND VISIT OF HUMA PUTUKU AND OF NAÑGOLO ANTUPA
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 3 minutes
• B&W
• Sound
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MPAMBANDA, THE HEALER, TELLING A STORY
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 3 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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THE CHAYO GIRLS' GAME. NTCHAMU VILLAGE
(Netherlands, 1961)
• 2 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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AT MALAGANU, A NGONI VILAGE NEAR LAKE NGURI
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 3 minutes
• B&W
• Sound
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[MISCELLANEOUS SCENES. MUNDAU, CHANGANE]
(Netherlands, 1959)
• 13 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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[CHONGUENE, GAZA. BUS DEPARTURE]
(Netherlands, 1959)
• 3 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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[INVESTITURE DANCES OF A NEW HUMU AT MULUMBA]
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 8 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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MAPIKO DANCE
(UK, 1958)
• 11 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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"LIKUMBI KUINDJILA". MALE PUBERTY RITES OF PASSAGE AT MUANGA
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 18 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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"LIKUMBI KUINDJILA". MALE PUBERTY RITES OF PASSAGE AT KUMAÑGOMA
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 12 minutes
• B&W
• Sound
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GIRLS' PUBERTY RITES
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 7 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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[MAKONDE BURIALS]
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 7 minutes
• Color, B&W
• Sound
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["RONGA WEDDING" (UMBELUZI THEATRE)]
(Netherlands, 1961)
• 6 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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MAKONDE MUSICIANS
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 10 minutes
• Color, B&W
• Sound
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CHOPI MUSICIANS AND DANCERS IN THE BANGUZA TRIBAL KINGDOM, ZAVALA DISTRICT
(Netherlands, 1959)
• 11 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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MAKONDE BASKETRY
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 13 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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MANUFACTURING NGOTI STRING, A CHIRUNDZU PANNIER AND A NDZAVA PANNIER BY THE SHANGAAN
(Netherlands, 1959)
• 9 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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CHIKHELO BASKET USED IN GAZA
(Netherlands, 1959)
• 12 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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MAKONDE POTTERY
(Netherlands, 1958)
• 18 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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POTTERY BY MAKUPULANE CHOPI WOMEN
(UK, 1959)
• 11 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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THE MAKONDE SCULPTOR NANGONA
(Netherlands, 1959)
• 6 minutes
• Color, B&W
• Sound
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[MISCELLANEOUS SCENES. ANGOLA]
(Netherlands, 1960)
• 14 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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MAKING TOASTED CASSAVA FLOUR
(UK, 1960)
• 20 minutes
• Color
• Sound
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Bonus Material
INTERVIEW WITH MARGOT DIAS
(Netherlands, 1996)
Director: Catarina Alves Costa
With: Joaquim Pais de Brito
• 2 minutes
• 16mm
• B&W
• Silent
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Total Running Time: 08:33:00 (2 Discs)
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Booklet Text: José Manuel Costa, Paulo Ferreira da Costa, Catarina Alves Costa, Nuno Domingos & Harry G. West (bilingual English & Portuguese)
Published By: Cinemateca Portuguesa
Institutional Price: $300 (plus shipping)
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