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Language
English
Description
In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called "the greatest poem written...
2) Cowboys
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Being a cowboy is a full-time occupation, not just a state of mind. Here we meet present day cowboys who tell of the rewards they get from their job. We view a portrayal of the Black American cowboy and learn how they helped to develop the great American west. We meet rodeo participants who explain the exhilaration they receive from their sport. Steer wrestling, bareback and saddle bronc, calf roping and wild cow milking are all shown and explained....
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Kaira's childhood friend Shawa moved as a young widow with two sons to her present home in search of good land. Here she met Garombe and had four more children. We get close to each family member in scenes of daily life, starting with children milking cows at dawn. After taking grain by donkey to a distant flourmill, Shawa and daughters brew beer, which the sons drink when plowing the field. We learn how Shawa trained oxen to plow, and Garombe...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From early Colonial times, the rural hilltowns of New England have been home to generations of dairy farmers. They earned their living through a remarkably varied combination of seasonal activities and incessant daily chores — maple sugaring, plowing, planting, cultivating, haying, logging, clearing fields, building stone walls, mending fences, harvesting crops, cutting, splitting and stacking firewood, breeding, doctoring, trading and slaughtering...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
These four films present a variant of an alpine singing type characterized by the swift alternation from chest voice to head voice, known since the nineteenth century under the German name of "yodel." In the Swiss German dialect of the Muotatal, a small valley in the Pre-Alps of central Switzerland, the local version of yodels is called Juuz (pronounced "yootz"), or in its diminutive form Juuzli. Traditional yootzing is characterized by a specific...
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