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On the Botel Tobago Island in Taiwan, the first months of the lunar Yami calendar (July-August) are dedicated to buildings and collective festivities of competitive nature. They are punctuated with responsorial songs which can be sung in the Karyag way, that is to say “accompanied by banging hands”.

Banda Gbambiya musicians, who live in the North-West of Central African Republic, have a collective musical practice using multiple portative resonators xylophones. The village has its own orchestra composed of four xylophones, which are played during ritual ceremonies or entertainments.

Among the Ekonda of Zaire, the most important moment in a woman's life is undoubtedly the birth of her first child. The young nursing mother, called Walé, returns to her parents where she is confined for 2 to 5 years. Chantal, a young woman living in the village of Ikongo will be coming out of reclusion. She prepares a performance of dances and songs.

In the Northern and Eastern regions of Chad, in Zarawa, Bideyat and Goranes breeders groups, blacksmiths are considered as a lower caste. They practice their art and also other artisanal techniques (wood and leather work), even music.

A re-enactment of a tale of the Dogon people of Sanga, Mali, showing how the Dogons conceive criminality, justice and the death penalty.

In Sardinia, music, songs and dances are part and parcel of daily life. These different musical and vocal traditions are more particularly expressed during traditional and religious celebrations.

In Cambay, a town in Gujarat, India, agate- and carnelian-cutting is performed in many workshops according to traditional techniques, some of which go back 4,000 years.

A farmer in Steenwerck, a village of northern France, decides to build a weathercock on his roof and gradually shapes it into an airplane.

During the shooting of Jean Rouch's "Dyonisos", G. Dieterlen, E. Fulchignoni and other participating friends recall their meeting and their research with the filmmaker.

Preparation and celebation of the traditional palm fruit festival in a Columbian Amazonian village of Bora Indians. During the preparations, a religious service is carried out without the priest ; during the festival itself, in the presence of the priest and nuns, mythic Bora sayings and Biblical texts become mixed in the course of the tradional songs and dances, mask games, and various sports contests.

In Bissau, the inhabitants of each district of the town prepare their masks, songs and dances for the carnival parade in the greatest secrecy.

Appearance is of great importance to the Bororo, to the Wadaabe in particular. After the rainy season, the Wadaabe hold a gerewole at the home of a rich herdsman. This is a contest of beauty, dancing and elegance for the young men, who dance for four days and nights on end.