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Maasai : secrets of an ancient culture
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Maasai : secrets of an ancient culture

Author: Bill Kurtis; Kurtis Productions.; Public Media Education.; WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago, ILL : Public Media Education, ©1994.
Series: New explorers.
Edition/Format:   VHS video : VHS tape   Visual material : English
Summary:
Shows and watches Gillies Turle on the steps of his journey to the scientific process of exploring the Maasai's culture. Along the way, we see loibons, or medicine men, perform their secret rituals and young men training to become morani, or warriors, gaining a glimpse at the ways of the Maasai themselves, the quiet nomadic people indigenous to Kenya and Tanzania.
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Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Bill Kurtis; Kurtis Productions.; Public Media Education.; WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
OCLC Number: 32425502
Performer(s): Bill Kurtis.
Description: 1 videocassette (56 min., 45 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Details: VHS "426068."
Series Title: New explorers.
Other Titles: Secrets of an ancient culture.
Responsibility: a co-production of WTTW/Chicago and Kurtis Productions.

Abstract:

Shows and watches Gillies Turle on the steps of his journey to the scientific process of exploring the Maasai's culture. Along the way, we see loibons, or medicine men, perform their secret rituals and young men training to become morani, or warriors, gaining a glimpse at the ways of the Maasai themselves, the quiet nomadic people indigenous to Kenya and Tanzania.

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