Hadza, The: The Food Quest of an East African Hunting and Gathering Tribe

Synopsis: In Africa, south of the Sahara, the great majority of the population live by peasant farming. But scattered over the continent are a number of small groups who neither cultivate nor herd stock and who obtain their food solely from the wild produce of the land. This film is a detailed and systematic description of how one such group, the Eastern Hadza, organise their foraging activities - their hunting of game animals with bow and arrow and their gathering of wild fruits, roots and the honey of wild bees. The photography was completed well before the recent settlement scheme was put into effect and shows the Hadza as they were when they still moved in small isolated nomadic groups over an area of about a thousand square miles just south of the equator and to the east of Lake Eyasi in East Africa.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film; Film. 16mm. sd. b&w. 40 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1966
Availability: Hire
Uses: Undergraduates. Postgraduates.
Subjects: Anthropology
Keywords: Africa; Hadza; hunter-gatherers

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