LA CIRCONCISION
Jean Rouch
Prod.: Jean Rouch per CNRS e Secrétariat d’État à la Coopération. 16mm. D.: 14’. Col
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Film Notes
Circumcision rituals of Songhai boys in the village of Hombori (Mali). The boys to be circumcised are led into the bush where the circumciser prepares them and operates on them. After the operation, the children receive care. In the evening, they go out for the first time and sing their first song as circumcised boys.
Reportage Award, Misguich Festival, 1949.
Jean Rouch cinéma et anthropologie, edited by Jean-Paul Colleyn, Cahiers du Cinéma-INA, Paris 2009