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| Title: | The migrants |
| Editors: | Woodhead, Leslie Turton, David |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dissappearing world series |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Royal Anthropological Institute |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | Mursi migrants ethnic identity sedentarization videos (form) anthropological films (form) |
| Abstract: | This is the third film in the trilogy 'In search of cool ground'. It is about a drought-induced migration of cattle-keeping Mursi from their traditional territory in the Omo valley to the Mago valley, about fifty miles away. This migration has brought them, for the first time, into contact with the market economy of the Ethiopian Highlands. With their foothold in the pastoral economy weakening (tsetse flies make the Mago area quite unsuitable for cattle herding) and their dependence on market exchange growing, the migrants are in the process of becoming settled agriculturalists. Mursi migrants, and especially women, are familiar figures in the weekly market at Berka. By tracing the present and likely impact of this move on the lives of the migrants, the film shows how they are beginning to carve out a new ethnic identity for themselves, as well as a new home. [Abstract reproduced from video] |