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In Africa, south of the Sahara, the great majority of the population live by peasant farming. But scattered over the continent are a number of small groups who neither cultivate nor herd stock and who obtain...
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...
The object of the series of films was to create a scientific record of the traditional life of Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of Australia. They concentrate on the subsistence technology of the...
Ngama is a Walbiri ritual centre near Yuendumu some 200 miles northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia. It is distinguished by a large rock painting of a snake, and much of the associated ritual is...
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.
A compilation of parts 1, 2 and 4 of the PEOPLE OF THE AUSTRALIAN WESTERN DESERT SERIES. Parts 1 & 2: A simple account of an average day in the lives of two families of the Western Desert of Australia. Most...
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