Himalayan Herders
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Bishop John M. ; Bishop Naomi ;
- Editeurs : Watertown Documentary Educational Resources [éd., distrib.] ;
- Date d'édition : 2004
- Sujets : Films documentaires -- Asie, Anthropologie visuelle, Ethnologie, Népal, Films ethnographiques Népal
- Langue(s) : Népalais, Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD vidéo monoface simple couche zone 0 (76 min), : Coul. (SECAM)
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Film en version originale en népalais. Sous-titres et commentaire en anglais ; The DVD also contains Update 2002 video, Making Himalayan Herders video and PDF texts files (article, film transcript, book excerpt)
Résumé
Himalayan Herders is an intimate portrait of a temple-village in the Yolmo valley of Central Nepal where Tibetan Buddhists consult shamans, married life begins by kidnapping the bride, and the nearest road is a two-day walk away. The community drama of marriage, death, and rituals is juxtaposed with the rich texture of daily life, both in the village and the surrounding mountains and forest where these pastoralists herd zomo, a cross between a cow and a yak, which thrives in middle altitude pastures between 8,000 and 14,000 feet. Cultural change, in the form of a government primary school, incorporation into a national park, and circular migration for wage labor outside Nepal, is discussed by residents in interviews. A twenty-five-year-long collaboration between an ethnographer and a documentary filmmaker, the film provides rich material for examining gender, cultural change, religion, pastoralism, South Asia, and the cultural ecology and economics of mountain populations.