Embera: The End of the Road (Disappearing World episode 3) (1971)(no video link)
Title
Embera: The End of the Road (Disappearing World episode 3) (1971)(no video link)
Subject
Colombia
Indigenous peoples--South America
Description
Content description from Worldcat.org
(https://www.worldcat.org/title/embera-the-end-of-the-road-disappearing-world/oclc/856056542):
At first sight, the peaceful Embera people of Colombia live what seems an idyllic life. Four centuries ago, the Spaniards went to Colombia for gold--and found that the Indians wouldn't work for them. In the clashes that followed, many Embera were massacred, and the invaders were forced to import slaves from Africa. Those former slaves, or libres, remain poor and largely without rights themselves, yet they have pushed the Embera into the remote jungle headwaters--while, as if to seal their fate, the Colombian government drives the last section of the Pan-American highway straight across the territory. The Embera tell how they want both legal rights over the land they now inhabit and protection from the physical attacks of the libres with whom they trade. This film shows them in their plight, caught between the government's bulldozers and the libres' banknotes. Part of the series Disappearing World.
Ephemera: none available
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(https://www.worldcat.org/title/embera-the-end-of-the-road-disappearing-world/oclc/856056542):
At first sight, the peaceful Embera people of Colombia live what seems an idyllic life. Four centuries ago, the Spaniards went to Colombia for gold--and found that the Indians wouldn't work for them. In the clashes that followed, many Embera were massacred, and the invaders were forced to import slaves from Africa. Those former slaves, or libres, remain poor and largely without rights themselves, yet they have pushed the Embera into the remote jungle headwaters--while, as if to seal their fate, the Colombian government drives the last section of the Pan-American highway straight across the territory. The Embera tell how they want both legal rights over the land they now inhabit and protection from the physical attacks of the libres with whom they trade. This film shows them in their plight, caught between the government's bulldozers and the libres' banknotes. Part of the series Disappearing World.
Ephemera: none available
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
Ariane Deluz (anthropologist)
Chris Kelly (narrator)
Brian Moser (director and producer)
Publisher
ITV - Independent Television
Date
1971 June 15
Citation
“Embera: The End of the Road (Disappearing World episode 3) (1971)(no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed May 21, 2026, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/68.