UID:
almafu_9958912418502883
Format:
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 59 min.) :
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digital, .flv file, sound
Content:
This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a thirty year period. "Before the white people came we did what we wanted," N!ai recalls, describing the life she remembers as a child: following her mother to pick berries, roots, and nuts as the season changed; the division of giraffe meat; the kinds of rain; her resistance to her marriage to /Gunda at the age of eight; and her changing feelings about her husband when he becomes a healer. As N!ai speaks, the film presents scenes from the 1950's that show her as a young girl and a young wife. The uniqueness of N!ai may lie in its tight integration of ethnography and history. While it portrays the changes in Ju/'hoan society over thirty years, it never loses sight of the individual, N!ai. Filmmaker: John Marshall, Adrienne Miesmer.
Note:
Title from title frames.
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Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1980.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Feature films.
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Feature films.
URL:
A Kanopy streaming video
URL:
A Kanopy streaming video
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