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Mammy water / Ministère de la culture, Les archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie présentent ; Pierre Braunberger présente ; un film de Jean Rouch ; Films de la Pléiade.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Water spirits.
- Fishers.
- Manners and customs.
- Shama (Ghana)--Social life and customs.
- Shama (Ghana).
- Fishers--Ghana--Shama--Social life and customs.
- Water spirits--Ghana--Shama.
- Guinea, Gulf of.
- Ghana--Shama.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (18 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, N.Y.] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2014]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- A portrait of a fishing village, Shama, Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, as filmed in 1953 and 1954. The success of the fishermen is governed by water spirits ("Mammy water") which are honored with ceremonies and offerings to the sea.
- Credits:
- Editing, Philippe Luzuy.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Films de la Pléiade, [1954]; previously released in 2012.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 25, 2014).
- Publisher Number:
- if-mam Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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