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A secret rainmaking ritual is threatened by extinction. The anthropologists Knut Christian Myhre and Frode Storaas travel to Tanzania to document it for posterity.

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saturday 25. January 2014 - 10:02

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The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Six faculties cover most of the traditional university disciplines. Within the faculties are included 60 different specialised departments, centres and institutes.

In this film you follow both the anthropologists and the people they study to gain a glimpse of life in a particular part of East Africa in the 21st century.

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