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Film, Video Folklife, Foodways, and Women's Empowerment in Afghanistan

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Title

  • Folklife, Foodways, and Women's Empowerment in Afghanistan

Summary

  • This film highlights the work of Nasrin Rafiq, a longtime director of USAID's women's empowerment programs in Afghanistan, moved to the U.S. in 2017. She talks about the ways traditional arts and knowledge fueled economic development for Afghanistan's women, and how specialty dishes like Qabuli Pulao and Shir Berenj reinforce community values. She joins host Carolina Moratti of the Share Your Foodways initiative of the division of folklife and cultural heritage at the Arts Institute of Middlesex County (N.J.), to demonstrate how to make Qabuli Pulao and Dogh, an evening yogurt drink. She also makes bread at an outdoor brick oven and demonstrates the technique in crafting Bolani, flat bread stuffed with potatoes. The American Folklife Center's Homegrown Foodways in Central New Jersey film series is a collaboration with folklorist Sally Van de Water and colleagues at the Arts Institute of Middlesex County where Van de Water is folklife programs manager. The series highlights in three films the many ways that foodways are essential to create, reinforce and reinvent community.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2022-11-02.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Homegrown Foodways in Central New Jersey. 0
  • -  Nasrin Rafiq, Carolina Moratti.
  • -  Recorded on 2022-11-02.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024698298

Online Format

  • video
  • online text
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Folklife, Foodways, and Women's Empowerment in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-02, 2022. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024698298/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2022) Folklife, Foodways, and Women's Empowerment in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-02. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024698298/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Folklife, Foodways, and Women's Empowerment in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-02, 2022. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024698298/>.