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Returning Souls
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Documentary Educational Resources
Media Type:DVD
Release Date:October 2012
Audience:Higher Education
High School
Running Time:85 minutes
Physical Description:(Null)
Language:Amis and Chinese with English subtitles
Author:Hu, Tai-Li
Resource Library Number:EAODVD 32
Subject:Diaspora and Ethnicity
Science, Technology, & the Environment
Subheading:Emigration and Immigration
Natural Disaster
Region:East Asia
Country:Taiwan



Abstract:

In this documentary film by Tai-Li Hu of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, a unique case of repatriation unfolds as the villagers of the matrilineal Amis tribe in Taiwan recover the ancestral souls residing in the pillars of their ancestral house, toppled by a typhoon and now on display in a museum.  Bringing back the ancestral souls, begins the difficult reconstruction of a new ancestral house.

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