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Choqela: Only Interpretation

Name: Choqela: Only Interpretation
Director: John Cohen
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1987-01-01
Duration: 12 min
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Release Date: January 1, 1987

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 0h 12m

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Director: John Cohen

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This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song of the Aymara Indians of Peru. By offering several different translations of the proceedings, the film acknowledges the problems of interpretation as an inherent dilemma of anthropology.