The Rendille (Disappearing World episode 20) (1977)
Title
The Rendille (Disappearing World episode 20) (1977)
Subject
Assimilation (Sociology)
Kenya
Rendille (African people)
URL
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Description
Content description from Worldcat (https://www.worldcat.org/title/rendille-disappearing-world/oclc/865199244):
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 bushes into milk and meat. As the herds quickly exhaust the vegetation in an area, they must be taken wherever there is sufficient grazing - even 200 miles away. This arduous job can only be done by young, fit men with no domestic ties - so each male Rendille youth must serve 14 years as a warrior herdsman before he can settle down. The Rendille are experiencing the worst drought in nearly a century; having survived droughts before, they are confident they will again. But there is another problem: the young herdsmen are beginning to feel the lure of big-city life in Nairobi.
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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 bushes into milk and meat. As the herds quickly exhaust the vegetation in an area, they must be taken wherever there is sufficient grazing - even 200 miles away. This arduous job can only be done by young, fit men with no domestic ties - so each male Rendille youth must serve 14 years as a warrior herdsman before he can settle down. The Rendille are experiencing the worst drought in nearly a century; having survived droughts before, they are confident they will again. But there is another problem: the young herdsmen are beginning to feel the lure of big-city life in Nairobi.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Clipping of photocopied page with program description and image.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Brian Moser (series director)
Chris Curling (director and producer)
Terence Twigg (editor)
Charles Stewart (cinematography)
Anders Grüm (anthropologist)
Publisher
Granada Television
Date
1977 February 23
Citation
“The Rendille (Disappearing World episode 20) (1977),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 18, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/415.