Series Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
Director Paul Henley
Anthropologist Dieter Heinen
Country/Production UK
Release 2000
Length 46 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location Venezuela, Orinoco Delta / America
Ethnic Group Warao
Language English, Spanish and Warao with E/subtitles
Collection GCVA, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester
University School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester
Order No RAI-200.3038
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Antonio Lorenzano was an acclaimed musician, shamanic healer and craftsman, and the leader of the Warao community of Morichito on the Winikina River, in the lower Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. The film follows anthropologist Dieter Heinen, who knew Lorenzano well, as he returns to Winikina, some six months after Lorenzano's death in November 1996 to pay his respect to his relatives. From the testimonies of his children, grandchildren and others who knew him, it becomes clear that even post-mortem, Lorenzano's view about the proper conduct of Warao cultural practices carry great weight. However the cultural tradition that Lorenzano represented was a hybrid, a fusion of the old with new ideas and practices which he introduced from outside his community.
