Illicit Trade, Ep. 02 - Chinchorro Mummies
(Chinchorro)
Diego Breit Lira | Documentary, Series
2020 | 52 minutes | Chile
When a city is built on top of a cemetery, children play with skulls, and their parents become tomb robbers. For decades, Arica has been the center of self-taught archaeologists and foreign buyers.
Synopsis
When a city is built on top of a pre-Columbian cemetery, children play with skulls, and their parents become tomb robbers. For decades, Arica has been the center of self-taught archaeologists and foreign buyers, even those interested in human bodies. In Switzerland, two of the oldest mummies in the world were found in a collector’s basement. They were about to be burned, but their rescue allowed them to return to the place where they belong.
Series Description
There are no millenary mummies in Switzerland, the vicuñas do not live in New Zealand, and the Alerce does not grow in the United States. How did Chile’s most valuable cultural goods get there? Illicit Trade investigates the incredible theft of fossils, mummies, shipwrecks, meteorites, exotic animals, and endangered trees that have crossed continents to end up in the hands of wealthy collectors, scientific laboratories, and prestigious museums.
Citation
Main credits
Breit Lira, Diego (film director)
Guzmán Storey, David (researcher)
Sanhueza Melendez, Paulina (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Francisca Saez Agurto, Guillermo González; editors, Darío Órdenes, Cristóbal Valenzuela; music, Wesley Slover.
Citation
Cataloging
Pragda subjects
Activism
Anthropology
Criminal Justice
Economics + Social Class Issues
Environment + Sustainability
International Relations
Latin American Studies
Sociology
South America
Keywords
Clips
DIRECTOR: Diego Breit Lira
NATIONALITY: Chile
YEAR: 2020
GENRE: Documentary, Series
LANGUAGE: English; Spanish; German; Other languages
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adults
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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Illicit Trade, Ep. 05 - Alerce
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Illicit Trade, Ep. 01 - Fossils
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Illicit Trade, Ep. 04 - Meteorites
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Illicit Trade, Ep. 06 - Oriflama
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Te Kuhane o te Tupuna: El espíritu de los ancestros
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Illicit Trade, Ep. 03 - Vicuña
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