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Films
2 Films
with a digital version available
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Keywords
“Nomads and Nomadism”
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Directors
“Nairn, Charlie”
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Series
“Disappearing World Series”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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films with a digital version
2
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Region
Middle and Near East
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
Country
Afghanistan
1
Algeria
1
Keywords
Herding
1
Nomads and Nomadism
2
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Social Change
1
Social Organisation
2
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Directors
Nairn, Charlie
2
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Singer, André
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
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Country of production
United Kingdom
2
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Year of production
1972
1
1975
1
Film list
The Kirghiz of Afghanistan
1975
51
‘
Directed by
Charlie Nairn
André Singer
.
The Kirghiz of Afghanistan are a group of some 2,000 pastoralists living on a bleak mountain plateau in a narrow isthmus of land between the borders of the Soviet Union and China. For nine months of
Middle and Near East
Herding
Nomads and Nomadism
Social Organisation
The Tuareg
1972
52
‘
Directed by
Charlie Nairn
.
This film is about a group of nomadic Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains near Tamanrasset in Algeria. The main focus of the film is the collapse of the former economic basis of their
North and Northeast Africa
Social Organisation
Social Change
Socioeconomic conditions
Nomads and Nomadism