Kau Faito'o: Traditional Healers of Tonga (review)
Abstract
Kau Faito'o is a descriptive ethnographic film depicting a variety of healers (kau faito'o), and healing methods (faito'o fakatonga) as practiced at the turn of the millennium in Tonga. Viewers get a clear sense of Tongan culture as well as insights about specialists in birth, fertility and infancy, massage and bonesetting, and medical plant knowledge.What makesthis filma little different is the production crew, which includes Tongans doing writing, narration, and research, under the sympathetic direction of Melinda Ostraff. Filmed entirely in Tonga, the production values are very good. Clear sound quality, good lighting, and visuals are augmented with clean editing, eloquent narration, and subtitles providing adequate translations without distracting from the events occurring on the screen. The film is engaging and enjoyable to watch.
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Poltorak, M. (2010) · Oceania · doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.2010.tb00069.x · Cited by 10 · see citing works
“A diversity of healing practice was implicit in research revealing the instrumentality present in mothers’ health decisions for their children (Young Leslie 1999) and the regional diversity often denied in previously more rigid and homogenising descriptions of Tongan sociality (Evans 2001; Francis 2003).”
Watson‐Gegeo, K. A., & Gegeo, D. W. (2011) · Anthropology of Consciousness · doi:10.1111/j.1556-3537.2011.01050.x · Cited by 6 · see citing works
- Authors
- Leslie, H. Y.
- Venue
- The Contemporary Pacific
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2004-03
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 219-223
- ISSN
- 1043-898X (ISSN-L)
- 1527-9464
- OpenAlex
- W2029976056
- Semantic Scholar
- 4b8c979a3ec0085228a7eec692350499511d39e9
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Contemporary Pacific/The contemporary Pacific (Online) (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Indigenous Studies in Latin America
- Keywords
- traditional healers, Tongan culture, ethnographic film, massage, medicinal plant knowledge, Tonga
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