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Woman the toolmaker : hideworking and stone tool use in Konso, Ethiopia / writer/producer/editor, Tara Belkin ; in collabortion with Steven Brandt and Kathryn Weedman.
Penn Museum Library - Media DVD DT380.4.K65 W652 2006 DVD + booklet
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Archaeological methods & practice
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Konso (African people)--Implements.
- Konso (African people).
- Women--Ethiopia.
- Women.
- Stone implements--Ethiopia.
- Stone implements.
- Hides and skins--Ethiopia.
- Hides and skins.
- Ethiopia.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Educational films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([4] pages ; 19 cm).
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Hideworking and stone tool use in Konso, Ethiopia
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- In English and unidentified African language with English subtitles
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Portrays the remarkable lives of a group of Konso hide workers from southern Ethiopia who may be the last people in the world to make and use flaked stone tools regularly. Unlike the 'man the toolmaker' stereotype, most Konso hide workers are women who learn their skills from female relatives. This ethnoarchaeological film shows the complete life cycle of making and using flaked stone artifacts, including scraping hides to produce soft leather products for bedding, bags, drums and even ritual clothing, and the processes of collecting, working, heat-treating, resharpening, recycling, and discarding stone scrapers"--Container insert.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Helina Solomon.
- Credits:
- Director of photography/field producer, Justin Shipley.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary short motion picture produced in 2005.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1598741195
- 9781598741193
- OCLC:
- 74833792
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