Turkana conversations. 2, A wife among wives : notes on a Turkana marriage / by David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

MacDougall, David, filmmaker.

MacDougall, Judith, filmmaker.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Kenya.

Ethnology.

Turkana (African people)--Social life and customs.

Turkana (African people).

Turkana (African people)--Marriage customs and rites.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (70 minutes)

Other Title:

Turkana conversations 3

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Berkeley Media, 1982.

Language Note:

In Turkana.

In English.

Original language in Turkana.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This, the third and final film in renowned ethnographic filmmakers David and Judith MacDougall's classic Turkana Conversations Trilogy, investigates the views of the Turkana, and especially Turkana women, on marriage and polygyny. As the plans for a marriage in a nearby homestead unfold, the film explores why a Turkana woman would want her husband to take a second (or third) wife, and how the system of polygyny can be a source of solidarity among women while at the same time it may brutally disregard individual feelings.The Turkana women are well aware of the contradictory problems associated with individual liberty and communal survival. The film admirably demonstrates how Turkana culture -- and, by extension, human culture -- is a living thing, shaped by the people who carry it. In Turkana, with English subtitles.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 07, 2016).

OCLC:

954042143