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Title Nuba Wrestling / a film by Rolf Husmann and Werner Sperschneider
Published London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (42 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum take usually place between the northern and southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity in a hostile urban environment. Nuba wrestling has developed into a unique mixture of traditional culture and modern sport. The film also illustrates the lives of some of the wrestlers who live in the shanty town
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016)
In English
Subject Nuba (African people) -- Social life and customs
Wrestling -- Sudan
Manners and customs.
Wrestling.
SUBJECT Sudan -- Social life and customs
Subject Sudan.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Husmann, Rolf, director
Sperschneider, Werner, director