The Wedding Camels
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1983.2.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: MacDougall, David
label: Collection Creator
content: MacDougall, Judith
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content: David and Judith MacDougall films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (color sound; 3900 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978
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: Edited film from the 1974 film project about the semi-nomadic Turkana pastoralists of northwestern Kenya. In Turkana society herds mean security and wealth. This film explores the relationships between wedding negotiations, dispersed kin groups bound together by reciprocal livestock obligations, and the significance of these marital alliances in a harsh environment. The negotiations documented are between the kin groups of two age-mates and old friends. Unfolding events reveal the delicate balance between the economics of the domestic groups involved and the self-respect and dignity of their principal representatives. 

Legacy Keywords: Transhumance ; Animal husbandry ; Adornment beads jewelry ; Marriage negotiations for ; Brideprice negotiations for ; Councils negotiations for brideprice Turkana ; Hair treatment of Turkana ; Speeches councils of elders marriage ; Kinship regulation of marriage ; Homesteads domestic groups marriage ; Residence rules postmarital ; Ritual symbolism of marriage ; Animals as brideprice ; Language and culture