Le bouillon d'awara = Awara soup / Laterit Productions, Cobra Films, ORSTOM, La Sept Arte, Carré Noir/RTBF, avec le soutien Eurimages ; un film de Cesar Paes ; produit par Marie-Clémence Blanc Paes ; sur un sujet de Marie-José Jolivet, Denis Ruellan, Cesar Paes ; adapté par Marie-Clémence & Cesar Paes.
Publisher:
California Newsreel,
Copyright Date:
1996
Description:
1 videocassette (71 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
In French, French Creole, Taki-Taki, Portuguese, Hmong, and Javanese with English subtitles. Letterboxed.
Summary:
Introduces the viewer to one of the world's most multi-cultural communities, a global village in the backcountry of French Guiana. Three hundred years of world history intersect in Mana, a town where 1500 people speak 13 different languages and live together in remarkable harmony. The film's title comes from a local Easter specialty, a kind of gumbo based on the fruit of the awara palm, which functions as the film's symbol for Mana's polyglot society. We meet descendants of indigenous Galibi Indians, of Bushnegroes who escaped slavery in the jungles, of mixed race Creoles who remained in the French towns and of Javanese contract rice laborers, as well as more recent immigrants, Taki Taki-speaking refugees from political strife in next-door Surinam, Brazilian migrant workers and Hmong farmers resettled after the Vietnam war.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)148153399
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.