Judith Shulevitz discusses the politically mobilizing potentials of home-video technology utilized by Vincent Carelli and Brazilian tribes to reaffirm and preserve Brazilian tribal cultural identity. Implementing John Rouch's notion of "participant observation" of the tribal lifestyle, Carelli's award-winning videos Video in the Villages and At the Girl's Party at the Eighth Native American Film and Video Festival are unconventional and empowering approaches to ethnographic filmmaking.