Macumba, Trance and Spirit Healing
Object Details
- Local Number
- HSFA 1990.4.3
- Collection Creator
- Richeport-Haley, Madeleine
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- Madeleine Richeport films
- Extent
- Film reels (color sound; 1548 feet)
- Date
- 1985
- Archival Repository
- Human Studies Film Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Film reels
- Collection Citation
- Madeleine Richeport films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- Edited film on the rapidly growing spiritist religion in urban Brazil known variously as Umbanda or Macumba. Shot principally in Rio de Janeiro, the film documents the beliefs, practices, and organization of various Umbanda centros and reveals the combination of African spiritism, Catholicism, and European spiritism that characterizes this distinctively Brazilian religion. Scenes of centro activity include musical performance, dancing, and possession of mediums by the pantheon of Umbanda spirits. Possessed mediums are shown in therapy sessions with clients of these centers and interviews with mediums and devotees explore the meaning of spiritual experience within Umbanda.
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
- Record ID
- ebl-1633113016064-1633113016071-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
