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Paani : of women and water / a film by Costanza Burstin.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Hindi
- Marwari
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Rajasthan.
- Women.
- Muslim women--India--Rajasthan.
- Muslim women.
- Sex role--India--Rajasthan.
- Sex role.
- Water-supply--India--Rajasthan.
- Water-supply.
- Water conservation--India--Rajasthan.
- Water conservation.
- Rajasthan (India)--Social life and customs.
- Rajasthan (India).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Short films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (23 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In Hindi and Marwari with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in massive urns, they clean plates and clothes with it, water their animals, and even maintain their homes with it (we see them churn mud to smear across their floors). A record of the ongoing cycles of women's labour ("we make food, we eat, we sleep, we wake up..."), their sense of humour and resilience, and the ways the community co-operate to deal with scarcity.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 06, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1158191637
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