Two girls go hunting
Description
The second program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. This film shows Duka and her friend, Gardi, as they prepare to marry men they have never met. The film follows the build-up to the marriages, from the all night vigil with girlfriends, to farewells when the brides are taken away at dawn to the village of their husband's family, the arrival in the villages and the preparation of the prospective brides for the ceremony by the mother-in-law.
Runtime
50 min
Series
Subjects
- Ethnology (238)
- Sex role (109)
- Hamar (African people) (5)
- Rites and ceremonies (224)
- Marriage (181)
- Women (809)
- Marriage customs and rites (24)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
1996
Database
Alexander Street
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