AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 7
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 (46 minutes, two film reels (1,693 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: scences in the village marketplace including a man butchering carcass of a goat and transactions inside a cloth merchant's shop; a group of men at the river reinforcing the structure to divert water into irrigation canal; various long-range shots of the mountainsides surrounding the village; herds grazing; shots of circular nomadic dwellings on the hills; long-range shots of men working at a threshing floor; a work group of men dredging the dry channel in preparation for irrigation of their gardens; men and boys cutting brush to use as brooms.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Herders cattle goats Afghanistan ; Canals irrigation Afghanistan ; Irrigation gardens Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Butcher markets Afhganistan ; Dwellings domestic compounds Afghanistan ; Markets village shops Afhganistan ; Merchants shops Afhganistan ; Rivers swimming Afghanistan ; Dwellings nomadic Afghanistan ; Threshing wheat Afghanistan ; Brooms material used for Afghanistan ; Singing as palliative to work Afghanistan

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