Choqela: Only Interpretation

January 1, 1987 12 min
✓ Released 14507 days ago
Documentary

About

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.

Movie Info

Status: Released
Director: John Cohen
Runtime: 12 min

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