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About
Namibian independence attracts vast amounts of international aid, but development programs no longer benefit Ju/'hoan farms. We witness the power of the "Bushman myth." This myth - a belief that Ju/'hoansi live uniquely in harmony with nature and are born to hunt. Promised great wealth, Ju/'hoansi vote to establish a nature conservancy. When their profits are a meager 75 Namibian dollars ($10.50 US) each, Ju/'hoansi ask, "Where is all the money going?"
About A Kalahari Family
A Kalahari Family is a five-part, six-hour series documenting 50 years in the lives of the Ju/'hoansi of southern Africa, from 1951 to 2000. These once independent hunter-gatherers experience dispossession, confinement to a homeland, and the chaos of war. Then as hope for Namibian independence and the end of apartheid grows, Ju/'hoansi fight to establish farming communities and reclaim their traditional lands. Through depiction of their efforts of the Ju/hoansi to participate as farmers in the contemporary economy and advocate for their rights to do so, the series challenges stereotypes of primitive and unchanging "bushmen."
The five films in the series are:
Indigenous Studies:
Regions:
Keywords:
- Kalahari
- Bushmen
- Hunting and Gathering
- Filmaking
- Giraffe Hunting
- Hunting Techniques
- Gathering Techniques
- Bow and Arrow
- Money
- Poison Arrow
- Tracking
- Daily Life
- Kalahari Desert
- Nyae Nyae Region
- Marriage
- Water Access
- Herero
- Family Ties
- Farms
- History
- Colonialism
- Genocide
- War
- Apartied Rule
- South Africa
- Forced Labor
- Death
- Infant Mortality
- Tribe
- Tribal Reservations
- Healers
- Trances
- Pig Hunting
- Hierarcy
- Distribution of Meat
- Lion Hunting
- Wildabeast Hunting
- Ritual Scarring
- Youth Life
- Elder Life
- CUlture Change
- Diamond Mines
- Ranchers
- Oppression
- Marginalization
- Isolation
- Memory
- Ju/'Hoansi
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