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Rivers of sand / a film by Robert Gardner ; produced by the Film Study Center, Harvard University.
LIBRA VHS DT380.4.H36 R5 2000z
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Hamar (African people).
- Women--Ethiopia--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Ethiopia.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (83 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : The Film Study Center at Harvard University, [between 2000 and 2009?]
- Language Note:
- Chiefly in the Hamar language, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Portrays the people called the Hamar who live in the scrubland of southwestern Ethiopia. Points out that in this society, men are masters and women are slaves. Shows how this sexual inequality affects the mood and behavior of the people.
- Credits:
- Photography, editing and writing, Robert Gardner; translating, Eike Berinas, Ivo Strecker, Jean Strecker.
- Notes:
- Videocassette release of the documentary motion picture Originally produced 1974.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 49665629
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