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The second program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. This film shows Duka and her friend, Gardi, as they prepare to marry men they have never met. The film follows the build-up to the marriages, from the all night vigil with girlfriends, to farewells wh...
| Other Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In African dialect with English subtitles. |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Filmakers Library,
1996.
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| Series: | Hamar trilogy ;
2. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | The second program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. This film shows Duka and her friend, Gardi, as they prepare to marry men they have never met. The film follows the build-up to the marriages, from the all night vigil with girlfriends, to farewells when the brides are taken away at dawn to the village of their husband's family, the arrival in the villages and the preparation of the prospective brides for the ceremony by the mother-in-law. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed June 25, 2014). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (50 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:49:45 |
| Audience: | College Adult. |
| Awards: | Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize, Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1993, 1994, African Studies Association, 1998, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1995 |
| Production Credits: | Executive producer, Chris Curling ; anthropologist, Jean Lydall ; producer, Joanna Head ; editors, David Hope, Beatrice Bakhti ; photography, Ned Johnston, Alessandra Scherillo. |