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Into the field /

This film follows the everyday 'secular' lives of nuns in a Romanian Orthodox monastery. As well as documenting the nuns' activities, relationships, and roles within the community, it also incorporates sequences of live-action animation to depict some of the filmmaker-anthropologist&#...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grossman, Alyssa (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In Romanian with English subtitles.
Published: Manchester, England : University of Manchester, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, 2005.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Nuns > Romania.
Romania.
Religieuses > Roumanie.
Nuns
Romania
documentary film.
Feature films
Documentary films
Short films
Documentary films.
Short films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Courts métrages.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:This film follows the everyday 'secular' lives of nuns in a Romanian Orthodox monastery. As well as documenting the nuns' activities, relationships, and roles within the community, it also incorporates sequences of live-action animation to depict some of the filmmaker-anthropologist's own particular challenges of working in the field.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed February 03, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (28 min.)
Playing Time:00:27:53