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Rivers of sand / by Robert Gardner.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Gardner, Robert, 1925-2014, narrator, director, screenwriter.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), distributor.
Series:
Ethnographic video online.
Language:
English
Undetermined
Subjects (All):
Hamar (African people).
Women--Ethiopia--Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Ethiopia.
Genre:
Ethnographic films.
Documentary films.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 streaming video file (104 min.) : sound, color
polychrome
Other Title:
Rivers of sand : journal readings and additional footage
Place of Publication:
Watertown (Mass.) : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1974.
Language Note:
English, some undetermined native language, with English subtitles.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
video file
Summary:
The people portrayed in this film are called Hamar. They dwell in the thorny scrubland of southwestern Ethiopia. They are isolated by some distant choice that now limits their movement and defines their condition.
Notes:
Previously released on DVD.
Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed May 29, 2012).
Filmed in Ethiopia.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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