Horses of life and death /
The Pasola, a traditional jousting battle with hundreds of horses and riders, is the Sumbanese New Year celebration, and also a ritual that anticipates the rice harvest. It is staged to welcome the annual swarming of sea worms on the western beaches, since the worms are seen as representing the spir...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Watertown, MA :
Documentary Educational Resources (DER),
1991
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Series: | Ethnographic video online ;
v. 2 |
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