A Wife Among Wives (1981)

The story

A Wife Among Wives is an ethnographic documentary that is shot in a non-linear narrative, following the stories of several families. This film focuses on the women of the Turkana village in Kenya and their roles, as well as marriage rituals and dynamics. The film follows several families, focusing on what the females of the households have to say about being in a polygynous marriage with multiple wives and one husband.

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