The Wedding Camels (1980)

Directed by

Judith MacDougall, David MacDougall

Genre

documentary

Country

Kenya

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a Turkana family in Kenya as they discuss and plan the livestock required for a wedding. It shows the traditional process of negotiating bridewealth before a marriage takes place.

observationaldeliberateeducationalcalmneutralculturally detailedreflective

What happens

The Wedding Camels is an ethnographic film directed by David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall, filmed in 1974 and released in 1980 (108 min., Turkana with English subtitles), that examines the negotiations and cultural practices that surround the tradition of the Turkana people of Kenya of giving a bridewealth before a wedding. The film was funded and distributed by the University of California Extension Center for Media. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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