The Rendille : Disappearing World / ITV Global Entertainment.

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Each morning and evening, the Rendille elders in north Kenya pray together - their prayer centered on their camels. In this driest part of Africa's semidesert, the Rendille grow no crops. They keep sheep and goats but depend largely on their camels, the only domestic animals that can convert thorn b...

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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], ©1977.
Series:Films on Demand.
Disappearing world.
Subjects:
Assimilation (Sociology)
Cultural geography.
Population.
Rendille (African people)
Rural-urban migration.
Social ecology.
Social evolution.
Social structure.
Tribes.
Urbanization.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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.
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • Camel Herders (1:41)
  • Social structure (2:08)
  • Herding Camels (2:04)
  • Division of Labor (1:01)
  • Prayer and Political Administration (2:53)
  • Milking in Camel Camps (1:29)
  • Milk Administration in Camps (1:59)
  • Leading Camels to Water (2:39)
  • Village Plans Move (3:19)
  • Village Packs to Move (2:22)
  • Reaching New Home (1:14)
  • Setting Up Houses (2:05)
  • Source of Resources Rendille Use (2:20)
  • Rendille in Modernizing Kenya (0:59)
  • Soreo (1:42)
  • Goat Sacrifice (2:00)
  • Social Importance of Camels (3:07)
  • Asking for Camel (2:47)
  • Young Men (2:24)
  • Nabo Ceremony (1:57)
  • Symbolic Representations of Family Life (1:45)
  • Calling Camels (2:22)
  • Goat Sacrifice at Nabo (3:32)
  • Good Life for Rendille (1:06)
  • Credits: The Rendille: Disappearing World (0:34)