Balapan, the wings of the Altai.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Paris : ZED, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (51 min.).
Language:	English
Series:	Ethnographic video online ; volume 1
Subject:	Altai (Turkic people) -- Mongolia. Sheepherding -- Mongolia. Hunting -- Mongolia. Wolf hunting -- Mongolia. Eagles. Wolves. Altai (Turkic people) Eagles. Hunting. Sheepherding. Wolf hunting. Wolves. Mongolia. Nonfiction films. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10315395

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Other authors / contributors:	Sardar, Hamid.
Notes:	Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). Previously released as DVD. Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web. This edition in English and Altai with English subtitles.
Summary:	In the Deloun valley of western Mongolia, men struggle to keep their sheep herd alive from hungry wolves. To fight back, they have decided to organize a massive wolves hunt with their tamed eagle. Khoda Bergen, a 4 years-old and dreams of participating in the hunt. Before that however, he will first have to capture and train a Balapan, a young eagle.

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