Shade seekers and the mixer / Media Centre, the University of Manchester ; produced and directed by Richard Werbner.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Werbner, Richard P., director, producer.

Gabanakgosi, Njebe Molefe, researcher, interviewer.

University of Manchester, producer.

International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, producer, distributor.

Language:

English

Tswana

Subjects (All):

Traditional medicine--Botswana.

Traditional medicine.

Healers.

Ancestor worship.

Spiritual healing.

Botswana.

Spiritual healing--Botswana.

Ancestor worship--Botswana.

Healing--Religious aspects.

Healing.

Healers--Botswana.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Title on container: Shade seekers & the mixer

Place of Publication:

Manchestser, UK : International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, University of Manchester, [2007]

Language Note:

English narration; interviews in Tswana with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Dr. Richard Werbner returns to Moremi village in the Tswapong hills of Botswana to follow-up on an earlier film Séance reflections, with the subject of that previous film as research assistant. Discusses the idea of 'serti' which literally means shade, the idea that power, dignity and charisma are tied to the light in which a person is seen by others, especially ones ancestors. The controversial healer seen in the séance sequences of the previous film is accused of polluting the earth by wrongly mixing Christian and non-Christian and doing so for personal gain, as he defends his God-given mission for "the original way."

Credits:

Research assistant, Njebe Molefe Gabanakgosi ; camera and sound, Richard Werbner ; editor, Andy Lawrence.

OCLC:

86105693