A backward civilization (the Berbers of Northern Africa)

Duration: 0:21:00

Year Published: 1937

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Presents study of economic and social conditions in a society isolated from the rest of the world by almost impenetrable natural barriers. Discloses representative aspects of the daily life of superstitions. Analyze the factors involved in continued existence of backward societies.Historical Summary:Pictures a society isolated from the rest of the world by almost impenetrable natural barriers. Discloses representative aspects of the daily life of the Berbers, in northern Africa, with their crude handicrafts, primitive agriculture, and age-old customs and superstitions. Analyzes factors involved in the continued existence of such a backward society.

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