Sick Baby and the water chevrotain (The)

  • Bébé malade et le chevrotain aquatique (Le)
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Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1988
Format : Short
Running time : 9 (in minutes)
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In a Pygmy banana plantation in the Central African Republic, a little girl suffers a sudden attack of hyperthermic convulsions, an illness attributed to the fact that her parents have eaten a water chevrotain. She is treated by the women of the camp.

Collection title : Pygmy Chronicle

Directors:
EPELBOIN Alain (LACITO, UPR CNRS, Paris); GAULIER François

Authors:
EPELBOIN Alain (LACITO, UPR CNRS, Paris); GAULIER François

Scientific advisers:
AROM Simha (LACITO, UPR CNRS, Paris); BAHUCHET Serge (LACITO, UPR CNRS, Paris); THOMAS Jacqueline M.C. (LACITO, UPR CNRS, Paris)

Production:
CNRS-LACITO ; CNRS AV ; La Cathode Vidéo

Date of production : 1988
Duration : 00:09:00
Color : Couleur
Sound : Sonore
Public : Specialised audience
Original Support : 8 Video
Delivery support : VHS, Beta SP
Version : French
Discipline : Ethnology Africa
Keyword : Keywords : Family therapy ; Food taboo ; Infancy ; Pygmy
Places : Central African Republic

Distribution: CNRS Images
Lending, Sale (private use), Sale (institutions use)

Awards:
Festival de films ethnographiques de Grenade : 1er prix.

Organizations

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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