Ring of Fire: Spice Islands Saga (Adventure season 2, episode 1) (1987)(no video link)
Title
Ring of Fire: Spice Islands Saga (Adventure season 2, episode 1) (1987)(no video link)
Subject
Bugis (Malay people)
Sulawesi (Indonesia)
Description
Content description from Worldcat (https://www.worldcat.org/title/ring-of-fire-spice-island-saga-videotape/oclc/83965976):
Travelogue culled from a ten-year journey through the Indonesian archipelago by the brothers Lawrence and Lorne Blair, who studied its natural environments, history, and ethnic and cultural diversity. Brief glimpses of dance and dance-related rituals, some performed by ethnic groups little known to the west, are seen in their cultural context.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One paper with handwritten notes. Bugis wedding/Celebes. Transvestite priests. Dance. Boats building, music, Flag Dance (mimics Portuguese sailors-?), Butonese Island. Dobu.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Travelogue culled from a ten-year journey through the Indonesian archipelago by the brothers Lawrence and Lorne Blair, who studied its natural environments, history, and ethnic and cultural diversity. Brief glimpses of dance and dance-related rituals, some performed by ethnic groups little known to the west, are seen in their cultural context.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One paper with handwritten notes. Bugis wedding/Celebes. Transvestite priests. Dance. Boats building, music, Flag Dance (mimics Portuguese sailors-?), Butonese Island. Dobu.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Lorne Blair (director, producer, and presenter)
Lawrence Blair (writer, producer, and presenter)
Hilary Gerrard (associate producer)
Ringo Starr (associate producer)
Mason Daring (composer)
Publisher
WGBH
Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Date
1987
Citation
“Ring of Fire: Spice Islands Saga (Adventure season 2, episode 1) (1987)(no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/215.