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Paani : of women and water
Title
Paani : of women and water / a film by Costanza Burstin.
Publication
London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (23 minutes)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed May 06, 2020).
In Hindi and Marwari with English subtitles.
Access and use
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Summary
Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in massive urns, they clean plates and clothes with it, water their animals, and even maintain their homes with it (we see them churn mud to smear across their floors). A record of the ongoing cycles of women's labour ("we make food, we eat, we sleep, we wake up..."), their sense of humour and resilience, and the ways the community co-operate to deal with scarcity.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Hindi; Marwari
Added to Catalog
June 29, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Short films.
Also listed under
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, publisher.
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