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Monday's girls / a Lloyd Gardner production for BBC-TV ; producer, Lloyd Gardner ; director, Ngozi Onwurah.
Penn Museum Library VHS GN483.3 .M662 1993
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Library of African cinema.
- Library of African cinema
- Language:
- English
- Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Rites and ceremonies--Nigeria.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Initiation rites--Nigeria--Ogoloma.
- Initiation rites.
- Marriage customs and rites--Nigeria--Ogoloma.
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Women--Nigeria--Social life and customs.
- Women.
- Puberty rites.
- Teenagers.
- Nigeria.
- Manners and customs.
- Teenagers--Nigeria.
- Puberty rites--Nigeria.
- Nigeria--Ogoloma.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (49 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1993]
- Language Note:
- In English and Waikiriki with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- A grandmother named Monday Moses in Ogoloma, Nigeria is responsible for taking the young girls of the village through various rites of passage into womanhood that involve body painting, public breast examination and five weeks of confinement in "fattening rooms" so that they will be ready for marriage. Documents these ceremonies and the crisis that develops when a chieftain's daughter who has lived in the city for some years, returns to participate in the ritual but then refuses to complete them.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Caroline Lee Johnson.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Alwin Kuchler, Simone Horrocks ; consultant, Titus Anyanwu ; anthropologist, Ibi Derekafa ; editor, Rod Iverson.
- Notes:
- Broadcast as an episode of the television program: Under the sun.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 31965549
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