Maasai: Keeping knowledge
Maasai: Keeping knowledge is the fifth of six films in the series Film essays of Maasai life.
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Filmed in the Rift Vallery, Kenya
Keeping knowledge explores the ways in which Maasai believe they can preserve their precious cultural heritage while at the same time considering new ways of community development. Drought has a severe impact on the community’s capacity to maintain traditions and crafts, yet it is these traditions and crafts that provide an opportunity to develop other sources of income.
Maasai films are:
Women at work and women at home
Enkang life
Changing times
Food and celebration
Keeping knowledge
Birds sing and lions roar
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