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Talking Heads: Capturing Dayak Deathways on Film

In 1996, an elite group of Ngaju Dayak religious activists invited National Geographic Television to film their rites of secondary treatment of the dead in the village of Petak Putih, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. In this article, I explore activists' efforts to engage the National Geo...

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Published in:	American ethnologist 2001-02, Vol.28 (1), p.32-55
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