We Know How to Do These Things: Birth In a Newar Village
We Know How to Do These Things: Birth In a Newar Village
We Know How to Do These Things: Birth In a Newar Village 123Movies. For these villagers, giving birth is a family affair; while a young girl is in labor, the birth attendant, mother and mother-in-law alternate between lending a hand and storytelling. Barbara Johnson studied documentary film and photography with Jerry Liebling and Elaine Mayes at Hampshire College from 1970-1974. She began working for the Smithsonian's newly formed National Anthropological Film Center in 1975. She was sent to Nepal to document early childhood socialization and daily life in a large farming village in the Kathmandu Valley.
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- Director: Barbara Johnson
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