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Two girls go hunting / directed by Joanna Head.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Hamar trilogy ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Ethiopia.
- Ethnology.
- Hamar (African people)--Ethiopia.
- Hamar (African people).
- Marriage customs and rites--Ethiopia.
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Marriage--Ethiopia.
- Marriage.
- Rites and ceremonies--Ethiopia.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Sex role--Ethiopia.
- Sex role.
- Women--Ethiopia--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1996.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- The second program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. This film shows Duka and her friend, Gardi, as they prepare to marry men they have never met. The film follows the build-up to the marriages, from the all night vigil with girlfriends, to farewells when the brides are taken away at dawn to the village of their husband's family, the arrival in the villages and the preparation of the prospective brides for the ceremony by the mother-in-law.
- Participant:
- Narrator: Jerusha Castley.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 25, 2014).
- Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize
- Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1993, 1994
- African Studies Association, 1998
- Society for Visual Anthropology, 1995
- OCLC:
- 884922963
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