AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 25
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American University (Washington, D.C.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (58 minutes, two film reels (2,052 feet) assembled film rolls 12 (camera rolls 23,24) and 13 (camera rolls 25,26), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: scenes of a contest of horsemanship enacted in the shallow rapid of the river--individual young men on horseback seeking to secure and control the body of a headless goat, to pick the carcass up from the river and escape with it from amongst the group; repeated shots of the horsemen massing together; jostling to pick up the body of the goat, secure control over it, and break away from the group; older men in the river positioning the carcasses for successive assaults; inside a mosque with recitations of prayer.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Contests Horsemanship inta-village competitions Afghanistan ; Spectacles horsemanship Afghanistan ; Garb turbans skullcaps Muslims Afghanistan ; Aggression in comptition Afghanistan ; Entertainment village contests Afghanistan ; Mosques prayer Afghanistan ; Horses horsemanship competitions Afghanistan ; Prayer mosques Muslims Afghanistan ; Worship liturgy Muslims Afghanistan

Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980