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In search of cool ground. Part 1, The Mursi : the Mursi trilogy
Title
In search of cool ground. Part 1, The Mursi : the Mursi trilogy / directed and produced by Leslie Woodhead.
Published
London : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1974.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (54 min.).
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Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
Recorded in Ethiopia.
This edition in English and Mursi with English subtitles.
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Summary
What made this trilogy special was that, unlike most television reportage, it had a temporal dimension. That is to say, it offered not a brutal, intrusive and uncomprehending snapshot, but a sympathetic, well-informed and thoughtful history of ten difficult years in the life of a tribe. Its insight derived from an anthropologist, David Turton, who has been studying the Mursi for years and who was able to provide the absolutely essential explanations of the mysterious events filmed by the Granada crew. This is the kind of illumination which is often provided by books or by personal experience, but almost never by television. This is a trilogy about aspects of the culture of two groups of people, the Kwegu and the Mursi, in Ethiopia. The titles are The Mursi, The Kwegu, The migrants.
Variant and related titles
In search of cool ground
Mursi
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Other formats
Original version: In search of cool ground. Part 1, The Mursi. London : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1974
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2019
Series
Disappearing world
Subjects
Genre/Form
Online media.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, production company.
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