A Wife Among Wives is a 1981 ethnographic documentary produced by filmmakers Judith and David MacDougall.
This film focuses on the women of the Turkana village in Kenya and their roles, as well as marriage rituals and dynamics.
[1] 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.
[5] The climax of the film is an instance in which a young local village girl runs away from her village to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man; However, her family succeeds in tracking her down, and she is married off to the older man at the end of the film.
[11] Multiple women in one family are able to band together to build homesteads and tend to livestock and farmlands, as well as raise the children and teach them how to complete their tasks.