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  1. Bitter Melons (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows a small band of G/wi people in their desert environment as they engage in a variety of daily activities: making music, dancing, gathering roots and wild melons, setting a snare for a duiker, butchering...

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  2. Curing Ceremony, A (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  3. Debe’s Tantrum (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  4. Joking Relationship, A (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  5. Kung Hunting Equipment (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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.

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  6. N/Um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !kung Bushmen (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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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  7. Wasp Nest, The (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Follows a group of women and children as they gather berries and roots. Younger women bait a nest of wasps. Note: the material for the film was shot in the 1950s.

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