The Korowai people of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, live in tree houses perched 90 feet in the air. This film follows anthropologist Paul Taylor as he studies the construction of a tree house made without any nails or hardware. Taylor uncovers fascinating Korowai tribal laws and rituals, and the impact regional deforestation in having on their cultural survival. Directed and produced by Judith Hallet. FREE.
Sponsored by: Southeast Asia Program
Kahin Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 640 Stewart Avenue
Introduction and discussion with Dr. Paul Taylor, Curator of Asian Ethnology,
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Refreshments served.
Discussion with filmmaker Branda Miller
This extraordinary film portrays the transformation of "ordinary" citizens into environmental activists. Miller's camera captures the casualties and champions of three diverse communities hard hit by unnatural disasters. Downwind from the Hanford nuclear site, local homes have been decimated by disease from released radioactive gases. In California's San Joaquin Valley, Hispanic-American farmworkers are routinely exposed to large doses of pesticides. In Louisiana's "Cancer Alley", African-American families mobilize against particle emissions from petrochemical and oil industries. Brilliantly edited and fast-moving. A great musical score of blues, country and folk arrangements. Produced by Branda Miller. FREE.
Sponsored by: Department of Natural Resources & Center for the Environment
165 MacGraw Hall
Introduced by Dr. James Gillette, Prof. of Environmental Toxicology
