Trance and Dance in Bali
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Trance and Dance in Bali is a short documentary film shot by the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson during their research on Bali in the 1930s. It shows female dancers with sharp kris d
In trance, the women dancers enter, holding their kris daggers aloft
The women dance ecstatically, stabbing themselves with their razor-sharp kris daggers, and coming to no harm.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the mid-twentieth century.
Trance and Dance in Bali
…Trance and Dance in Bali is a short documentary film shot by the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson during their research on Bali in the 1930s. It shows female dancers with sharp kris daggers dancing in trance, eventually stabbing…
Mead in 1948
Ink on paper drawing by artist I Ketut Ngéndon depicting anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson leaving Bali and heading for Papua New Guinea
Samoan girl, c. 1896
Mead, c. 1950