Documentary Films

The !Kung San: Traditional Life

From the !Kung series
by John Marshall
color, 26 min, 1987

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This video depicts traditional Ju/'hoan life by using vignettes from longer films in the !Kung San series. Footage selected shows tool-making technology, hunting and gathering, social life and children at play, and gives the viewer a feel for the vastness and beauty of the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert.

Other films in the series:

• An Argument about Marriage
• Baobab Play
• Bitter Melons
• Children Throw Toy Assegais
• A Curing Ceremony
• Debe's Tantrum
• First Film
• A Group of Women
• The Hunters
• A Joking Relationship
• A Kalahari Family
• !Kung Bushmen Hunting Equipment
• The !Kung San: Resettlement
• Lion Game
• The Meat Fight
• N!owa T'ama: The Melon Tossing Game
• Men Bathing
• N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
• N/um Tchai: the Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
• Playing with Scorpions
• Pull Ourselves Up or Die Out
• A Rite of Passage
• To Hold Our Own Ground: A Field Report
• Tug-Of-War, Bushmen
• The Wasp Nest