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Medlpa (Ost-Neuguinea, Zentrales Hochland) - Werberitual (»amb kenan«/»tanim het«)   [Other Title]

Medlpa (East New Guinea, Central Highlands) - Courtship Dance (»amb kenan«/»tanim het«)   [Title Translation]
Year of origin: 1972
Genre: Documentary Film
Locations of shooting: n/a

Credits
Production company: Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (Seewiesen)
First released by: IWF (Göttingen)
Distributor: IWF (Göttingen)
Author: Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt


Keywords: Medlpa, Amb kenan, Brauchtum, Lebenskreis, Liebeswerbung, Nasenreiben, Singen, Sitztanz, Stirnreiben, Tanim het, Tanz, Werbetanz, Werbetanz, circle of life, custom
The courtship dance of the Medlpa contains a stylized nose rubbing and contact of the cheeks. The participants, richly adorned, are sitting in couples side by side in a hut, in the background men are singing love-songs. At the beginning of the dances, which each have a length of about 5 minutes, the man sways his upper body and his head, then he turns to his female partner who also starts to sway. Forehead and nose rubbing take place. Afte a second nose rubbing the partners make a deep bow towards each other, then they rub their noses twice again, and so forth, in a steady rhythm not determined by the music.

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