公開日: 2012/05/29
An excerpt from Christopher D. Roy's "A Day in the Life of a Village in Africa"
This documentary shows us the day to day life of the Senufo people of the village of Sayaga in Burkina Faso.
Sayaga is a village of 1,000 people who grow yams, cassava, manioc, corn, and shea nuts.
The village is isolated for part of the year, when rains raise the streams and wash out the dirt roads.
The Roys visited Sayaga in February 2002 to attend the funeral of their student Burema Diamatani's father, who had died the previous year.
Women cooking together, with singing and dancing
As many as 20 percent of women in Sayaga die in childbirth. The village had begun to build a clinic, but the contractor left with the money after early stages of construction
An important crop grown in Sayaga is shea nut, or Karite. It makes a rich butter that can be eaten and used in cosmetics. Scenes of women peeling nuts, then making and stirring big pots of shea butter.
Women make their own thread out of cotton fibers, using a drop spindle. Then the local weaver creates cloth out of the thread
Scenes of the weaver, who uses a narrow loom with a horizontal warp. He moves the heddles with his feet to open and close the rows of threads for weaving in between. The cloth is made in strips, which are then sewn together.
People in Sayaga build their own houses out of clay. First they make the bricks, then build the house with bricks and mortar. Women's buildings, such as kitchens, are round, and men's buildings are rectangular. Roofs are made of thatched straw.
A family called Troure in a nearby village is blacksmiths. They make hoes, knives, and other useful tools.
Diabate family: men make leather and women made clay pots.
All village men work together to plow the fields in May, using short hoes and hand axes.
Young men play soccer in the evenings.
Funeral service: Starts late in the afternoon. People gather and give gifts. Burema privately makes offerings to help his father's spirit to move on.
Drumming!
The diviner tells Dr. Roy's future
People give offerings to the spirits of the wilderness, which are embodied by masks.
The masks' performances recreate the ancient encounters between the ancestors of the village and the spirits.
The end of the funeral is late at night, when people dance to the music of "balafons" (gyils)
This documentary shows us the day to day life of the Senufo people of the village of Sayaga in Burkina Faso.
Sayaga is a village of 1,000 people who grow yams, cassava, manioc, corn, and shea nuts.
The village is isolated for part of the year, when rains raise the streams and wash out the dirt roads.
The Roys visited Sayaga in February 2002 to attend the funeral of their student Burema Diamatani's father, who had died the previous year.
Women cooking together, with singing and dancing
As many as 20 percent of women in Sayaga die in childbirth. The village had begun to build a clinic, but the contractor left with the money after early stages of construction
An important crop grown in Sayaga is shea nut, or Karite. It makes a rich butter that can be eaten and used in cosmetics. Scenes of women peeling nuts, then making and stirring big pots of shea butter.
Women make their own thread out of cotton fibers, using a drop spindle. Then the local weaver creates cloth out of the thread
Scenes of the weaver, who uses a narrow loom with a horizontal warp. He moves the heddles with his feet to open and close the rows of threads for weaving in between. The cloth is made in strips, which are then sewn together.
People in Sayaga build their own houses out of clay. First they make the bricks, then build the house with bricks and mortar. Women's buildings, such as kitchens, are round, and men's buildings are rectangular. Roofs are made of thatched straw.
A family called Troure in a nearby village is blacksmiths. They make hoes, knives, and other useful tools.
Diabate family: men make leather and women made clay pots.
All village men work together to plow the fields in May, using short hoes and hand axes.
Young men play soccer in the evenings.
Funeral service: Starts late in the afternoon. People gather and give gifts. Burema privately makes offerings to help his father's spirit to move on.
Drumming!
The diviner tells Dr. Roy's future
People give offerings to the spirits of the wilderness, which are embodied by masks.
The masks' performances recreate the ancient encounters between the ancestors of the village and the spirits.
The end of the funeral is late at night, when people dance to the music of "balafons" (gyils)
