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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- IN
- V3703
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Under the Men’s Tree
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MacDougall, David; MacDougall, Judith
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Berkeley Media LLC,
- Title:
- Under the Men’s Tree
- Director:
- MacDougall, David; MacDougall, Judith
- Description:
- 1/2 in., VHS, NTSC.   viewing copy.   1 videocassette of 1.
15 minutes.   b/w.  
sound.  
- Country:
- USA, Uganda
- Year:
- 1968, 1974
- Publisher:
- Berkeley Media LLC,
- Language:
- Jie with English subtitles
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. The conversation on this particular afternoon becomes a kind of reverse ethnography, centering on the European's most noticeable possession, the motor vehicle. This is a uniquely delicate and intimate film, filled with the humor of the Jie and, implicitly, the ironic wit of the filmmakers. Shot in 1968, released in 1972.