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Films
3 Films
Keywords
“Social Conflict”
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Directors
“Woodhead, Leslie”
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films with a digital version
3
Region
Melanesia
1
North and Northeast Africa
2
Country
Ethiopia
2
Solomon Islands
1
Keywords
Death
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
3
Social Change
1
Social Conflict
3
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Directors
Woodhead, Leslie
3
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Series
Disappearing World Series
3
Country of production
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
1982
1
1991
2
Film list
The Lau of Malaita
1982
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
*Pierre Miranda and a team from Granada Television have made a fine film exploring the trouble realities of the people of the lagoon in the 1980s.* (B. Shore) This film focuses on the people of
Melanesia
Social Change
Social Conflict
Ritual
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
Mursi: The Land is Bad
1991
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
A further visit to the Mursi of Southern Ethiopia with whom contact was established 17 years ago, for an important coming of age ceremony which has had to be postponed many times. An elder of the
North and Northeast Africa
Ritual
Social Conflict
Health / Health care / Healing
Mursi: Nitha
1991
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
The proper time for a man to go through the Age Set Ceremony, the nitha, is just as he reaches physical maturity. But many years may elapse from one nitha to the next, so it is inevitable that some
North and Northeast Africa
Ritual
Social Conflict
Gender Role and Identity