Rendille, The
- Synopsis
- 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 film centres on the constraints that dependence on camel herding imposes, in an area in which no crops will grow, and on Rendille organisational and cultural responses to those constraints. The elders, women and children live in settlements and comparative comfort, while the young men for most of the year, rough it in camps. Shows the ways in which the routines of everyday life and the complementary divisions of labour between the sexes and the generations give ordered form to Rendille life. *RAI
- Series
- Disappearing World, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 52 min.
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of production
- 1977
- Availability
- Hire (film - RAI Film & Video Library)
Sale (video - RAI, Granada); 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) - Notes
- Broadcast on ITV in 2/97.
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- Keywords
- Africa; camel herding; Kenya; Rendille
Credits
- Director
- Chris Curling
- Contributor
- Anders Grum; Charles Stewart; Terence Twigg
Distribution Formats
- Type
- Film
- Format
- 16mm
Production Company
- Name
Granada Television
- Web
- http://www.granadamedia.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7734 8080
- Fax
- 020 7494 6280
- Address
- Non-Theatric Sales
36 Golden Square
London
W1R 4AH
Distributor
- Name
Royal Anthropological Institute
- Contact
- Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer)
- film@therai.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.therai.org.uk/film/film-sales External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7387 0455
- Fax
- 020 7388 8817
- Address
- 50 Fitzroy Street
London
W1T 5BT - Notes
- The Institute sells more than 250 anthropology and ethnology titles on video and DVD, including some produced by students and staff of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. There is also a large library of internationally produced film and video productions from which items may be borrowed within the UK.
- Name
Royal Anthropological Institute Film & Video Library, c/o Concord Media
- sales@concordvideo.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 726012
- Fax
- 01473 274531
- Address
- Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG
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