Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (55 min.).
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005514
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
Series Statement:
Disappearing world
Series Statement:
Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Murzu (African people)
;
Ethiopia Social life and customs.
;
Canada
;
Documentary films.
Abstract:
A further visit to the Mursi of Southern Ethiopia, with whom contact was established 17 years ago, for an important coming of age ceremony which has had to be postponed many times. An elder of the Mursi faces his last and most important challenge -- to arrange this ceremony. The date has been finally set but life has been very difficult for the Mursi over the past few years owing to attacks by hostile tribes, drought, famine, disease and cattle raiders and even now the ceremony may not take palace. There was a meningitis epidemic from which many people died until a vaccination and treatment programme ended it. This time we visit the South, the heartland of the Mursi, but everyone is fearful for the future.
Note:
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
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Recorded in Omo Valley, Ethiopia.
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Previously released as DVD.
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This edition in English.
URL:
http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2083100
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