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Mistaken Identity
(Millennium series)

VHS
60 minutes
GN380 .M561 1992 no.3

Who are you? Where does your individual identity begin and end? While Western societies strive to answer these questions through a biological view - conception, birth, adolescence, maturity, and death - tribal cultures define identity by social forces, who rears you, and an organic continuum. In "Mistaken Identity", explore these views of life and death through scenes that contrast the family life of an abortion counselor in Canada with a boy's initiation into manhood in a Brazilian Xavante Indian tribe, and a young girl's attempted suicide with an Indonesian Sumbanese tribesman's relationship to his dead relatives.

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