The Cows of Dolo Ken Paye: Resolving Conflict Among the Kpelle
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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.
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.
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Registered 28Aug70 · MP23824 (Jan-Jun 1973) Copyright holder: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc
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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.
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.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, sound, genre, description, catalog record, video
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright
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