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Transnational fiesta: 1992
- Title
- Transnational fiesta: 1992 [videorecording] / produced by Wilton Martinez and Paul H. Gelles.
- Publication
- Berkeley, CA : University of California, Extension Center for Media and Independent Living, 1993.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 2405 T | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Martinez, Wilton.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (61 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Each July, a festival honoring the Virgin of Carmen takes place in Cabanaconde, a peasant community in the southern Peruvian Andes. During the festival, the population doubles as former villagers living in far-flung lands return to their mountain home. Cabanaconde's joyous fiesta forms the centerpiece of this video that examines the multicultural and transnational experiences of Peruvian immigrants living in Washington D.C. In 1991, Teodocio and Julia Quispe, an elderly couple who live in the nation's capital, agreed to sponsor the costly five-day celebration and share expenses with their seven children. The Quispes discuss the significance of the annual event, particularly the prestige and spiritual solace it confers upon the sponsors. Family members are filmed in traditional dress, dancing in the village plaza and observing the syncretic rituals that mesh elements of Christianity with indigenous Inca beliefs. In the U.S., the Quispes and their relatives maintain ties with other Peruvian immigrants while living an American lifestyle. Although the U.S. provides the Peruvians with employment and educational opportunities denied them because of racism and strife in their troubled homeland, the immigrants rue America's materialism and lack of family cohesiveness.
- Subjects
- Note
- In English, Quechua and Spanish with English subtitles.
- Based on research by Paul H. Gelles.
- Credits (note)
- Producer, director, Wilton Martinez.
- Title
- Transnational fiesta: 1992 [videorecording] / produced by Wilton Martinez and Paul H. Gelles.
- Imprint
- Berkeley, CA : University of California, Extension Center for Media and Independent Living, 1993.
- Credits
- Producer, director, Wilton Martinez.
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- Added Author
- Martinez, Wilton.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 2405 T