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Keita The Heritage of the Griot
Title
Keita [electronic resource (video)] : The Heritage of the Griot / California Newsreel (Firm).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c1995.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (94 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on October 19, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
French and Jula with English subtitles.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
In this story-within-a-story, Mabo Keita, a young boy living in contemporary Burkina Faso, receives a message from a traditional storyteller (griot) that he must "learn the meaning of his name." Mabo is a descendent of Sundiata Keita, legendary founder of the Mali Empire and hero of The Epic of Sundiata. As Sundiata Keita comes to understand his role in Mandé history, so the younger Keita grasps the scope and significance of his heritage - a lesson that was not taught in his school's Westernized curriculum.
Variant and related titles
Heritage of Griot
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
French; South American Indian (Other)
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Mandé Creation Story (4:08)
A Mysterious Guest (3:46)
Daily Life in the Keita Family (3:00)
An Antelope During Drought (1:59)
A Soothsayer (3:20)
Lessons in Heritage (1:30)
Mission to Educate About Tradition (4:55)
A Modern African Household (2:21)
Buffalo Story (3:42)
A Mandé Promise (3:58)
Distraction at Home (2:32)
Western vs. Traditional Education (4:32)
Conquering the Buffalo (2:00)
Honoring a Promise (3:33)
Attempting to Keep Their Word (3:18)
Drawn to Heritage (1:51)
Nuptial Difficulties (3:13)
Unusual Pregnancy (3:16)
A Child is Born (3:29)
Struggle Between Tradition and Modernity (5:12)
A Cruel Fate (2:54)
Passing on Ancestral Knowledge (1:44)
Consulting a Wiseman (3:24)
Attempting to Walk (5:49)
Sundjata Stands Up (3:24)
A Grave Offense (2:46)
Exile from the Mandé Kingdom (2:06)
Confrontation (2:52)
Past Becomes Future (2:03)
Credits: Keita: The Heritage of the Griot (2:03)
Videorecording number
49727 Infobase
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
California Newsreel (Firm)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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