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Studies the Masai, herdsmen in the Rift Valley of Kenya, focusing on the role of women in a society in which a very high percentage of marriages are polygamous and only the men are entitled to own the...
Looks at how a single community in Japan has been affected by the country’s massive economic changes. In the village of Kurokawa in northern Japan, rich in natural beauty, agriculture and traditions, a...
Looks at the organisation and meaning of a Maasai woman’s fertility rite, and the conflict which arose at this particular ceremony with the men of the Maasai village (on the Loita Hills near the...
Focuses on the significance of the Masai age-set system, and, in particular, on the dramatic Eunoto ceremony which marks the important transition from warriorhood, during which the ‘warriors’ live for...
An account of the rituals, mock battles and celebrations involved in the installation of the 32nd king of the Shilluk of southern Sudan, the most northern of the Nilotic peoples, whose dynasty was founded by...
Looks at the background to the Bingham Report. Shell and BP, both British companies, are shown to have been involved in supplying oil to Rhodesia in defiance of both British and United Nations prohibition....
The Nuba live in a remote part of Africa near the centre of the Sudan - a predominantly Muslim country. They have a flamboyant culture and a tradition of body painting unequalled anywhere in the world. The...
Some 15,000 Rendille live in settlements and camps dotted in a 10,000-square mile expanse of desert and scrub bush in northern Kenya. Camels are the source of their subsistence and focus of their culture....
The Muria are a tribal group living in a relatively isolated area of central India. Their way of life differs from the general Indian pattern in many respects, particularly in the independence of spirit...
The Raj Gonds, once rich and powerful rulers of a large area of central India, now live as a tribal group, outside the mainstream of Indian society, on lands rented to them by non-Gond landlords. Once a...
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