In Search of Cool Ground - The Mursi Trilogy. I, The Mursi / ITV Global Entertainment.

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This first of three films begins an 11-year chronicle - from 1974 to 1985 - of life among the Mursi. As a tribe of 5,000 cattle herders in a remote region of southwestern Ethiopia, the Mursi have a remarkable, leaderless democratic system of self-government. Filmed when war with a neighboring tribe...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) Infobase ITV Global Entertainment
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], ©1974.
Series:	Films on Demand. Disappearing world.
Subjects:	Assimilation (Sociology) Cultural geography. Population. Tribes. Urbanization. Murzu (African people) Ethiopia. Educational films. Internet videos.
Genre:	Educational films. Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (52 min.) : sound, color.
Variant Title:	Mursi
Format:	Electronic Video

Contents:

Mursi Watch Themselves on TV (1:25)
Mursi Chronicle (2:09)
Conflict over Boundaries (4:49)
Interrupted Lives (3:15)
Public Debate on Peace and War (3:29)
Purpose of Debate (5:35)
Consensus (1:36)
New Attacks/New Debate (3:39)
Opposing Views (5:31)
Cattle and Men: Social Relationships (2:51)
Reading Goat Entrails (2:27)
Symbolic Rituals (4:27)
Different Kinds of Speakers (3:59)
Criticism of the Young Men (2:56)
Mursi Success (1:40)
Credits: The Mursi - In Search of Cool Ground I - The Mursi Trilogy: Disappearing World (0:54)