Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (53 min.).
,
005304
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.
;
Ethiopia.
;
Australia
;
Documentary films.
Abstract:
The Migrants is the third film in the trilogy In Search of Cool Ground made for Granada Television's Disappearing World series. It is about a drought-induced migration of Mursi from their traditional territory in the Omo valley to the Mago valley, about fifty miles away. This migration has brought them, for the first time, into contact with the market economy of the Ethiopian Highlands. David Turton notes that, when he first met the Mursi, men were seldom, and women never, seen at the highland markets. Now the Mago migrants, and especially women, are familiar figures in the weekly market at Berka, just four hours' walk from their new settlements. With their foothold in the pastoral economy weakening (tsetse flies make the Mago area quite unsuitable for cattle herding) and their dependence on market exchange growing, the migrants are in the process of becoming settled agriculturalists, like their highland neighbours, the Ari. By tracing the present and likely impact of this move on the lives of the migrants, the film shows how they are beginning to carve out a new ethnic identity for themselves, as well as a new home.
Note:
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
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Recorded in Ethiopia.
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Previously released as DVD.
,
This edition in English and Mursi with English subtitles.
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