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Films
found one film
with a Kanopy version
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Region
“North and Northeast Africa”
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Keywords
“Agriculture Farming”
and
“Everyday Life”
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Directors
“Lydall, Jean”
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Series
“Guardians of Productive Landscapes”
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Year of production
“2019”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films hosted on Kanopy
1
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Region
North and Northeast Africa
1
x
Country
Ethiopia
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
x
Everyday Life
1
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Food / Water
1
Directors
Lydall, Jean
1
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Strecker, Kaira
1
Series
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
1
x
Country of production
Ethiopia
1
Germany
1
Year of production
2019
1
x
Colour / Black and white
Film
Family Subsistence in the Hills of Hamar. We are guests of Shawa
2019
58
‘
Directed by
Jean Lydall
Kaira Strecker
.
The film is a sequel to former films on Hamar directed by Jean Lydall and Kaira Strecker, and contributes to the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series. Kaira’s childhood friend Shawa moved as a young widow with two sons to her present home in search of good land. Here she met Garombe and had four more children. We get close to each family member in scenes of daily life, starting with children milking cows at dawn. After taking grain by donkey to a distant flourmill, Shawa and daughters brew beer, which the sons drink when plowing the field. We learn how Shawa trained oxen to plow, and Garombe explains digging-stick cultivation is a thing of the past. He repairs the fence around his enclosure for plow-oxen and future fields. One son checks his beehive, cattle return home, children milk goats, and Shawa and girls prepare the evening meal.
North and Northeast Africa
Agriculture / Farming
Everyday Life
Food / Water