Aboriginal Cricket

Apr 19, 2005 15:45

I just watched the most amazing documentary from the 70s. It was about the game cricket, as played by the Trobriand islanders in Papua-New Guinea. It’s a highly formalized way of making war for them. There are anywhere from 60 to 150 people on the field at any given time, instead of 22. It was so amazing to see these tribesmen sitting around in ( Read more... )

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nerdy_thor April 20 2005, 22:42:43 UTC
Carradine?!?! what's this called?

I'm so there.

-Sean.

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teethcollector April 20 2005, 23:52:05 UTC
It was on some public channel, one of the two PBS affiliates. The show was an old 70s program called "THE CULTURES OF THE WORLD" or something very similar.

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