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Women who smile / produced by Joanna Head.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Hamar trilogy ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hamar (African people)--Ethiopia.
- Hamar (African people).
- 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 first program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. In this film Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe. Their often humorous conversations range from pregnancy and growing old to relationships with men. Although the men are dominant, the women are not servile. Shows harvest celebrations and the blessing ceremony for a new baby.
- 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:
- 886380035
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