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Iawo
- 1978 ----- color ----- 40 min ----- 16mm
- Examines the Cult of the Orisha (Yoruba in origin) brought to the New World by slaves. During colonial times in a society divided into masters and slaves, religions such as the Cult of the Orisha were the only elements of cultural resistance and integration with which the blacks could prevent their total domination by white values. The Cult survives in several areas of the Americas especially in Cuba and Brazil. The initiation of a group of women into a temple in Cachoeira, a town in Bahia, serves as a focus for a deeper examination of the religion, its ideology and social meaning. (In Portuguese with English subtitles)
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Latin America, Religions)
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