The Feast of the Chicken

The Feast of the Chicken

1992 · 55 min · ★ 7.9 · Documentary, Comedy

The morals and customs of the "native peoples" of Upper Austria are described by a team of anthropologists from Sub-Saharan Africa in the style of European and American anthropologists in the non-western world. While making the film, they discover new cultural phenomena. Wippersberg turns around the research methodology of Western anthropologists of performing ethnologic studies, and then popularising them by means of a documentary film.

Directed by Walter Wippersberg · Written by Walter Wippersberg

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