An
ethnographic book by
Maya Deren, written in 1953. She had originally intended to make an
ethnographic film, but found that the
medium was not sufficient to express her findings. This is interesting because many
ethnographers turn to film when they find that
the written word is
inarticulate in communicating experience and lived culture.
The footage that she shot in
Haiti was compiled and edited by Teiji and Cherel Ito to make a film of the same name in
1977.