Choqela: Only Interpretation (1987)
• January 1st, 1987 • 0h 12min
Documentary
Overview
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.
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