The Cows of Dolo Ken Paye: Resolving Conflict Among the Kpelle

Series: Anthropology Series

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1970

Creator: BFA Educational Media

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 28Aug70 · MP23824 (Jan-Jun 1973) Copyright holder: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc

Description: Cinematography, editing, animation, Marvin Silverman ; music, James L. Gibbs ; editorial consultant, Henry Breitrose Documents the coexistence of traditional life patterns and Western adaptations in the Liberian village of Fokwele by following the hot-knife trial by ordeal of a Kpelle farmer who wounded a cow. Includes actual Kpelle speech and music Director, Marvin Silverman, Establishes an ethnographic setting for an incident in Fokwele, Liberia, a modernizing village, when a cow is wounded by a farmer and the conflict is resolved through a hot-knife trial by ordeal.

Complete Record: Cinematography, editing, animation, Marvin Silverman ; music, James L. Gibbs ; editorial consultant, Henry Breitrose Documents the coexistence of traditional life patterns and Western adaptations in the Liberian village of Fokwele by following the hot-knife trial by ordeal of a Kpelle farmer who wounded a cow. Includes actual Kpelle speech and music Director, Marvin Silverman, Establishes an ethnographic setting for an incident in Fokwele, Liberia, a modernizing village, when a cow is wounded by a farmer and the conflict is resolved through a hot-knife trial by ordeal. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.