Venezuela - the Tohe ritual

On the frontier between Venezuela and Brasil a small community of Pume Indians sing regularly for the gods to descent during a nightly ritual called the tohe.

The old gods such as the Jaguar often no longer come but new gods such as the telephone, the skyscraper, the lawyer are new divine presences.

Anthropologists : Gemma Orobitg, Marc Augé (EHESS)
Field assistant : Cesar Diaz

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