AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 9
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: 1 Film reel (23 minutes, one film reel (803 feet) assembled film roll 16 (camera rolls 31,32), 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 in the village market place and along a line of shops; men socializing and drinking tea in a merchant's shop; a man winnowing wheat on a blanket and doing final stage of sifting to remove chaff; a merchant inspecting melons in his shop; man and his sons working in their irrigated garden; interview with the men about his garden.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Tea as beverage male sociability Afghanistan ; Markets vendors Afghanistan ; Wheat winnowing Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Agricultural crops melons Afghanistan ; Dwellings domestic compounds Afghanistan ; Shops shopkeepers Afghanistan ; Stimulants snuff use of Afghanistan ; Gardens irrigation Afghanistan

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