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Becoming a woman in Zanskar.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Becoming a man
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--India--Zanskar.
- Teenage girls.
- Coming of age--India--Zanskar.
- Coming of age.
- Arranged marriage--India--Zanskar.
- Arranged marriage.
- Nuns--India--Zanskar.
- Nuns.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, France : ZED, 2012.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in Tibetan.
- Summary:
- "Becoming Woman in Zanskar" recounts the moving story of a friendship shattered by destiny when two best friends have to part and to leave their families forever ... Tenzin will be married to a man she hasn't chosen while Palkit will become a nun. Two adolescents in the Himalayas: one kidnapped by her future husband, the other's head shaved as she enters the covent forever.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
- Recorded Zanskar, Himalayas Recorded Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India 0000.
- OCLC:
- 849668681
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