- Description
- 1 streaming video file (NTSC) (15 min.) : sd., col.
- Summary
- Filmed in the village of Gueoua (or Seba). Having recovered from their circumcisions, which take place at puberty, teenaged girls perform dances with the low chairs they have borrowed for use after their operations. Their caregivers join in the dances at the end of the tape.
- Series Statement
- Encyclopaedia cinematographica ; E 1553
- Subjects
- Note
- Filmed in 1968. Produced and distributed by the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, Göttingen, Germany.
- English title: Gere [also spelled Guere], West Africa, Ivory Coast; "Little stool dance" of the just-excised maidens. For a descriptive pamphlet in German, with English summary, see: *MGS (General) Encyclopaedia cinematographica.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 1644
- OCLC
- NYPY916004423-F
- Title
Gere (Westafrika, Elfenbeinküste) [electronic resource] : "Stühlchentanz" der frisch beschnittenen Mädchen.
- Imprint
1968.
- Series
Encyclopaedia cinematographica ; E 1553
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-2342
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Television. Gere (Westafrika, Elfenbeinküste).
Dan (African people) -- Dances.
- Local Subject
Initiation dances.
Puberty rites.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 1644