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When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuizen, a fascinating Khomani San traditional healer....
A performance by The Bushman of Namibia at the Festival L’Imaginaire. The group are Ju’hoansi and live in the north of the Kalahari. Each community has its own musical repertoires using hand-clapping,...
Sir Laurens van der Post, who has devoted much of his life to the plight of the disappearing Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, lectures to the Royal Geographical Society on exploration, recalling his original...
Looks at the bush people of the Kalahari and their introduction to western civilisation. After centuries of living in their traditional way, gathering roots and fruit and hunting, (latterly in part of the...
An overview of !Kung life, both past and present, and a portrait of N!ai, a !Kung woman in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in doing so the story of change in !Kung life during the...
A medicine man may go into a trance without the stimulus of dancing to treat someone who urgently needs his attention. /Ti!kay treats Sha//gai, a young pregnant woman who is about to have a miscarriage. Made...
Five-year-old Debe refuses to let his mother, Di!ai, go gathering without him. It will be a hot, exhausting day and Di!ai would prefer to leave Debe with his half-sister, N!ai. Debe has been looking forward...
Shows a joking relationship between !Nai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great uncle, /Ti!kay. They flirt together under a baobab tree. The joking relationship is an important institution in !Kung...
Construction of a hunting kit from raw materials and preparation of poisonous larvae and plants to coat arrow shafts. Use of equipment during a hunt. Note: The material for the film was shot in the 1950s.
The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the...
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