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Becoming a woman in Okrika / by Judith Gleason, Elisa Mereghetti Tesser, and David Bellatalla ; produced by Kamel Film.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ijo (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Ijo (African people).
- Women--Nigeria--Social life and customs.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Documentary.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (27 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1991.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Five females, fifteen to seventeen years old, undergo a traditional rite of passage that used to be a necessary prelude to marriage in Okrika. This sequence of events takes place in the village of Ogbogbo, which is part of the Okrika community of Ijo-speaking people who populate the Niger Delta in Rivers State, Nigeria.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).
- Recorded Nigeria 0000.
- National Women's Studies Conference, 1992
- American Psychiatric Association, 1992
- American Anthropological Association, 1991
- American Film & Video Festival, 1991
- First Prize, International Ethnographic Film Festival, Italy, 1990
- Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1991
- OCLC:
- 747796232
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