The Nuer
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1984.19.6
name: label: Collection Production company
content: CRM/McGraw-Hill Films
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content: CRM/McGraw-Hill educational films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound; 2,700 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970
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 by Hillary Harris and George Breidenbach made among the eastern Nuer of Ethiopia, a Nilotic cattle-herding people. The cinematic construction of the film seeks to convey a holistic feel for Nuer lifeways, particularly the intimacy between the Nuer and their cattle. Narration provides anthropological accounts of such events as a dispute over bridewealth, a ghost marriage, and a gar (male initiation) ceremony in which two boys receive forehead incisions. Also included is a subtitled interview in which an old man offers his own comments on Nuer life and customs.

Legacy Keywords: Animal husbandry cattle ; Seasonal migrations cattle camps courtship ; Herding cattle milking ; Transhumance cattle migrations (583-720 roll 2) ; Housebuilding wattle-and-daub thatching cow dung (1026-62 roll 1) ; Rites of passgae manhood scarification "Gar" ; Marriage spirits kin relationships artificial "ghost marriage" ; Divorce bride price cattle infertility ; Households domestic activities women ; Food preparation women mortar-and-pestle ; Scarification ethos adornment jewelry crafts ; Prophets "leopard skin chief" propitiation disease epidemics animal sacrifice procession ; Animal sacrifice butchering kinship ; Food quest annual cycle animal husbandry fishing agriculture ; Fishing spears wet season ; Music ceremony drumming dancing ; Cattle households fuel cow dung ; Hygiene cattle cow dung ashes urine daily ablutions ; Naming male identity cattle ; Councils speech disputation kin groups ; Ritual male initiates ritual specialists manhood ; Religious beliefs cattle invocations blessing cow dung ashes ; Spirit possession illness ritual expiation ; Epidemics children small pox ; Nakedness normal garb ; Special garments ceremony ; Effigies clay cattle children ; Tobacco smoking pipes ; Adornment hair styles jewelry facial painting ; Pastoral activities division of labor by sex ; Language and culture ; Ethiopia Nuer Nilotic ; Baro River Ethiopia ; Africa ; Ethiopia ; Nuer (African people) ; Nilotic peoples ; Ethiopians