The Kung San : resettlement.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Marshall, John K., producer.

Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), distributor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Khoisan (Other)

Subjects (All):

!Kung (African people)--Social life and customs.

!Kung (African people).

San (African people)--Social life and customs.

San (African people).

Documentary films.

Ethnographic films.

Genre:

Ethnographic films.

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Kung San : resettlement

Place of Publication:

Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2004.

Language Note:

In English and Khoisan with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD-R.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Using footage from 1978 through 1986, this video shows some of the dramatic changes in life-style and subsistence which the!Kung have undergone since their days of traditional gathering and hunting. No longer relying completely on foods obtained self-sufficiently, we glimpse the!Kung being given hand-outs of mealie meal, spending earned money from working in the South African Army on alcohol and consumer goods, and living in areas which increase crowding and argument. Filmmaker and anthropologist John Marshall is filmed helping the!Kung negotiate with South African authorities their right to install a pump on traditional lands. With a move back to traditional lands, and development of cattle herding and planned agriculture, there is a small hope that!Kung can be successful in a mixed economy.

Credits:

Compiled by Sue Marshall Cabezas, Judith Nierenberg ; editor, John Bishop.

Notes:

"This videotape is compiled from the original work and film footage of John K. Marshall."

Videodisc copy of a documentary originally produced in 1988.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

OCLC:

61189471