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  • COUNTRIES: Canada,France,Niger
  • Subtitles: Français

A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Niger in Niamey, during a ritual ceremony featuring possession dances. With this film, Jean Rouch continues his ethnological and cinematographic study of Songhay ritual objects. He demonstrates that, in a particular context, the transfer of a hampi vase to a museum requires the organization of a ritual ceremony to obtain the gods' approval. At the time, however, reservations about filming a possession dance for the opening of a shrine in a museum made the move "questionable from a museological point of view". Read More

Watch Hampi online. Featuring , Hampi is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Canada and was released on 1962. Hampi was directed by Jean Rouch,Oumarou Ganda,Claude Jutra. Read Less