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Body Arts: The Panará People

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Pitt Rivers Museum
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Dr Elizabeth Ewart of the University's Institute of Anthropology and Jaanika Vider, a former student, discuss body adornment and identity in Amazonia,.
in particular among the Panará people of Central Brazil whose concepts of personhood and socially 'human' bodies differ from Western ideas.

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Series
Pitt Rivers Museum
People
Elizabeth Ewart
Jaanika Vider
Keywords
brazil
pitt rivers
anthropology
culture
Amazonia
tribes
identity
Department: Pitt Rivers Museum
Date Added: 22/08/2011
Duration: 00:19:21

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