One day culture will bring us money

Sinal performance held at the opening ceremony of Balopa Cultural Festival in december 2006 at Baluan Island by Aiwai Sapulai.

The purpose of this enormous festival - the largest in the history of the island - was to revive old cultural traditions, get the bored youth involved in meaningful activities and thereby possibly attract international tourism and money to the island.

The video is part of a larger anthropological film project which deals with the ways Baluan people understand themselves, their culture and their possibilities in the new global reality. Apart from the extraordinary cultural performances the film focuses on several local debates, which evolved during the festival about what Baluan culture and tradition actually consists of and what it may and may not be used for.

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• culture
• tradition
• money
• Papua
• Ny
• Guinea
• Manus
• globalisation
• tourism

[minolpongap]

This is a great video...