Bibliograph

Altar of Fire, by Robert Gardner and J.F. Staal for The Film Study Center at Harvard University

Type

Label

Altar of Fire, by Robert Gardner and J.F. Staal for The Film Study Center at Harvard University

Language

eng

Abstract

This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Altar of Fire

Oclc number

897766291

resource.otherEventInformation

Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1976

Responsibility statement

by Robert Gardner and J.F. Staal for The Film Study Center at Harvard University

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Technique