Some Women of Marrakech (Disappearing Worlds season 1 episode 19) (1977) (no video link)
Title
Some Women of Marrakech (Disappearing Worlds season 1 episode 19) (1977) (no video link)
Subject
Morocco--Social life and customs
Social norms
Gender norms
Description
Content description from Films Media Group (https://www.films.com/ecTitleDetail.aspx?TitleID=25274) :
This film explores life for Muslim women in Marrakech through the perspectives of Aisha bint Muhammad and her friend Hajiba. Married to an unskilled laborer and with four children, Aisha works to help support the family, as they share a small courtyard home with six other families. Hajiba was thrown out of her natal home by the brother who became household head upon their father's death; now divorced, she works as a dancer, or shaykha, to support herself and her son. According to Muslim standards, she has dishonoured herself and her family, since dancers who entertain men for money are looked upon as women of easy virtue. The crew, comprised only of women, accompanied the women in their worship, at parties, and in preparation for a Muslim wedding. For both women, the ideal of seclusion remains unrealizable as economic factors take them out into the public world of men. Part of the series Disappearing World.
Ephemera: Available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Two small clippings with program description.
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.
This film explores life for Muslim women in Marrakech through the perspectives of Aisha bint Muhammad and her friend Hajiba. Married to an unskilled laborer and with four children, Aisha works to help support the family, as they share a small courtyard home with six other families. Hajiba was thrown out of her natal home by the brother who became household head upon their father's death; now divorced, she works as a dancer, or shaykha, to support herself and her son. According to Muslim standards, she has dishonoured herself and her family, since dancers who entertain men for money are looked upon as women of easy virtue. The crew, comprised only of women, accompanied the women in their worship, at parties, and in preparation for a Muslim wedding. For both women, the ideal of seclusion remains unrealizable as economic factors take them out into the public world of men. Part of the series Disappearing World.
Ephemera: Available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Two small clippings with program description.
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
Melissa Llewelyn-Davies (director and producer)
Elizabeth Fernea (consultant anthropologist)
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (producer)
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute (London)
ITV Granada
Date
1977 January 26
Citation
“Some Women of Marrakech (Disappearing Worlds season 1 episode 19) (1977) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed May 7, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/535.