This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song of the Aymara Indians of Peru. By offering several different translations of the proceedings, the film acknowledges the problems of interpretation as an inherent dilemma of anthropology.
Genres:
Dokumentation
Originaltitel
Choqela: Only Interpretation
Originalsprache
Englisch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.1987
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Choqela: Only Interpretation
1987·12 min
This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song of the Aymara Indians of Peru. By offering several different translations of the proceedings, the film acknowledges the problems of interpretation as an inherent dilemma of anthropology.