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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by BrunoFilms in 2005. |
| Summary |
This disease takes away the beauty of your face. It eats up your hands and feet and makes us ugly. Other diseases eat up your insides, but they leave you looking beautiful outside." "People in the villages think it is caused by Naga spirits. So they sacrifice chickens and goats and do prayer pujas. That's what they did for me too. My parents didn't know." Since antiquity, leprosy has struck fear into human beings. Seen as contagious, mutilating and incurable, leprosy continues to alienate those who contract it from their families and communities. Leper provides a rare and intimate glimpse into a contemporary society of lepers in a remote village in Nepal. Villagers speak openly and emotionally about their relationship to their sickness, to the "healthy" outside community outside the village boundaries, and the myriad stigmas and misunderstandings which surround a disease that has marked their bodies and their lives. The villagers speak eloquently of how, after much struggle and hardship, they build new lives for themselves, recreating family and community in the context of this disease. Their poignant and revealing stories offer heartfelt reflections on societal fears and aversions to sickness, bodily differences, and death. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Leprosy -- Patients -- Nepal -- Social conditions.
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Social isolation -- Nepal.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Bruno, Ellen, film director.
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Sakya, Sapana, contributor.
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Chogkhan, Pema, contributor.
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Grant MacLellan, John, contributor.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1127906 Kanopy |
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