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Films
3 Films
with a digital version available
x
Region
“North and Northeast Africa”
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Keywords
“Collective Community identity”
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Series
“Disappearing World Series”
and
“In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy”
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films with a digital version
3
x
Region
North and Northeast Africa
3
x
Country
Ethiopia
2
Sudan
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Collective / Community identity
3
x
Marriage
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Social Change
1
Social Organisation
2
Trade
1
Directors
Curling, Chris
1
Harries, Andy
1
Wason, David
1
Woodhead, Leslie
2
Series
Disappearing World Series
3
x
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
2
x
Country of production
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
1976
1
1979
1
1985
1
Film list
The Kwegu
1979
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Andy Harries
.
*’The Kwegu’ is an entirely tasteful and dignified presentation of the harsh realities of subsistence living, and it may help us understand how, even in stateless societies, dominated groups come to
North and Northeast Africa
Collective / Community identity
Agriculture / Farming
Social Organisation
Marriage
Trade
The Migrants
1985
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
David Wason
.
The Migrants is the third film in the trilogy ‘In Search of Cool Ground’ for Granada Television’s Disappearing World series. It is about a drought-induced migration of Mursi from their traditional
North and Northeast Africa
Social Change
Collective / Community identity
Refugees / Displaced populations
The Shilluk of Southern Sudan
1976
52
‘
Directed by
Chris Curling
.
This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard’s 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk.
North and Northeast Africa
Collective / Community identity
Social Organisation