| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1985. |
| Summary |
In the Footsteps of Taytacha follows a group of Quechua-speaking musicians and dancers as they leave their remote villages high in the Andes Mountains of Peru and join thousands of other highlanders on the annual religious pilgrimage to the sacred peaks of Qoyllur-RitÃ. Quollur-RitÃ, the largest and most important religious ritual in the southern Andes, occurs only five days out of the year and involves walking both day and night in terrain over 4400 meters in altitude. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English, Quechua, Subtitles in English. |
| Subject |
Runa.
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Costume.
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Mountains.
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Rural population.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
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Fasts and feasts.
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| Added Author |
Getzels, Peter, producer, author, film director, narrator.
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Getzels, Harriet Gordon, producer, author.
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West, Stephen, narrator.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1048804 Kanopy |
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