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The Mende

Granada Television's major documentary series looks at various aspects of societies from around the world.

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  • "Granada Television's major documentary series looks at various aspects of societies from around the world."@en
  • ""This is a portrait of Kpuawala, Sierra Leone, a village of some 260 Mende people living in a clearing in the forest in houses of mud brick and tin. Like any village portrait, it [shows] gossips, happy households and divided ones.The film was made during the Muslim month of fasting. The day begins with the call to prayer and ends with gossiping around fires and swinging in hammocks. It was a month when one young man was eagerly preparing to marry a new teenage wife, in spite of having been sold to cannibals by his first wife and publicly humiliated by his second..." -- Container."
  • "Documentary on the life and customs of the Mende, West African people of the rain forests of southern Sierra Leone and adjacent part of Liberia."@en
  • "Explores the lives of the Mende in the Sierra Leone village of Kpuawala."@en
  • "Visits the forest village of Kpuawala, Sierra Leone to document the way of life, customs, traditions and spiritual world view of the Mende (African people)."@en
  • "In Kpuawala; Sierra Leone, 260 Mende live in the forest in houses of mud, brick and tin. This village portrait shows successful citizens and unlucky ones, clowns and gossips, happy households and divided ones. As they go about their daily routine, the Mende recognize the constant presence of a supernatural world that affects farming, fishing and family life."@en

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  • "Ethnographic films"@en
  • "Videotapes"@en
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "non fiction"

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  • "The Mende"
  • "The Mende"@en

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