Maasai

Food and celebration

Maasai: Food and celebration is the fourth in the series Film essays of Maasai life. These remarkable films, in which the Maasai describe their culture and the ways in which a rapidly changing world continues to impact their way of life, bring the viewer close to an extraordinary and semi-nomadic indigenous world.

Following a male circumcision, an important ceremony in life’s journey, the village gathers to sing and dance and celebrate the event. The women prepare the food as the men observe a goat slaughter.

Goats and cattle are a source of wealth in Maasai society and the animals are looked after with great care, there is a very great difference here from the industrial farming of western society. This film contains scenes of a goat being butchered.

The Maasai films are:

•    Women at work and women at home

•    Enkang life

•    Changing times

•    Food and celebration

•    Keeping knowledge

•    Birds sing and lions roar