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Wives
Title
Wives / [by] Lisbet Holtedahl.
Publication
[London, England] : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2017.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (85 minutes)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed August 05, 2020).
Camera, Lisbet Holtedahl ; editing, Konrad Pilot.
In Fulfulde with English subtitles.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Alhajji Ibrahim is an Islamic scholar who has served as judge at the Sultanate of NgaoundeÌreÌ in Northern Cameroon for 46 years. The film follows Alhajji during the last years of his life, focusing on the relationships in a polygamous family. Living far away from urban centres, people like Alhaji and his family struggle to adapt to the arrival of modern education, their increasing marginalization, worsening poverty, and, in recent years, the constant threat of the Boko Haram insurgency. Shot over several years, Wives provides rare, intimate glimpses into the dynamics of a West-African polygamous Muslim family, and the challenges faced by an older generation whose norms and values are losing legitimacy in a rapidly changing environment.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Fula
Added to Catalog
November 02, 2020
Credits
Camera, Lisbet Holtedahl ; editing, Konrad Pilot.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Also listed under
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, publisher.
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