Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (54 min.).
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005425
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
Series Statement:
Becoming a man
Series Statement:
Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Keywords:
Arranged marriage
;
Coming of age
;
Nuns
;
Teenage girls
;
South Africa
;
Nonfiction films.
Abstract:
"Becoming Woman in Zanskar" recounts the moving story of a friendship shattered by destiny when two best friends have to part and to leave their families forever ... Tenzin will be married to a man she hasn't chosen while Palkit will become a nun. Two adolescents in the Himalayas: one kidnapped by her future husband, the other's head shaved as she enters the covent forever.
Note:
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
,
Previously released as DVD.
,
This edition in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles.
URL:
http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1833830
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