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Maasai Women
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Filmmaker Name:
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Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, Chris Curling
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Film Length:
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59 min
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Film Year:
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1980
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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1980s
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Series:
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Odyssey series
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Africa
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Subject:
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Gender
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The Maasai, a prosperous society of animal herders whose sustenence and wealth is their cattle, live primarily in the Rift Valley between Kenya and Tanzania. Women tend the cattle, bring up the children, clean mud from the village when it rains, and belong to a man's estate.
This film highlights the Maasai female's rights of passage from childhood to old age, and her lot in life as she is tied to the fortunes of not only husbands but sons as well. Since they alone can give birth, the women see themselves as important contributors to their husband's wealth and develop close supportive relationships with the co-wives. In this society, if a man is rich, "it's his wives who made him so."
Description from Science, Technology, & Human Values Vol. 5, No. 32 (Summer, 1980)
In an attempt to cut the often esoteric ice of anthropology, PBS released in 1980 the first season of ODYSSEY, a newly-created series of anthropological documentaries, with a second season in 1981. The entire series was produced by Public Broadcasting Associates of Boston, with major funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Polaroid. Michael Ambrosino is the Executive Producer of the series.
Anthropologist Melissa Llewelyn-Davies has been working among this group of Maasai in Kenya for ten years. This film is based in her research.
The original Granada Television version of Maasai Women was made by researcher and anthropologist Melissa Llewelyn-Davies:
Camera
Charles Stewart
Sound
Neil Kingsbury
Dubbing Mixer
Frank Griffiths
Film Editor
Dai Vaughn
Series Editor
Brian Moser
Producer / Director
Chris Curling
The Odyssey version of Maasai Women was made by adding scenes from the original Granada Television footage by:
Producer
Melanie Wallace
Sam Low
Editor
Alexandra Anthony
Narrator
Susan Stamberg
Sound Mixer
Michael Carton
Production Manager
Marian White
Post-production Supervisor
Ashton Peery
Post-production Assistant
Robert Burns
Business Manager
Pamela Lodish
Director of Promotion
Christy Moore
Assistant Director of Promotion
Laurie Manny
Promotion Secretary
Cynthia Rallis
Production Secretary
Catherine Bashalany
Executive Producer
Micheal Ambrosino
A Production of Public Broadcasting Associates, Inc. © 1980
Boston, Massachusetts
All rights reserved
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