Nai the Story of a Kung Woman Review

N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman

This film provides a wide overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of North!ai, a Ju/'hoan adult female who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her ain story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a xxx year catamenia. "Before the white people came we did what we wanted," Due north!ai recalls, describing the life she remembers equally a child: following her mother to selection berries, roots, and nuts as the season inverse; the division of giraffe meat; the kinds of rain; her resistance to her marriage to /Gunda at the age of 8; and her changing feelings almost her hubby when he becomes a healer. As N!ai speaks, the film presents scenes from the 1950'due south that show her as a young girl and a immature married woman. The uniqueness of N!ai may lie in its tight integration of ethnography and history. While information technology portrays the changes in Ju/'hoan society over thirty years, it never loses sight of the private, N!ai.

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wishing all colonizers a very d!eastward
my anthropology class is so depressing bc it'southward just stories upon stories about how white people destroy ethnic culture while other white people certificate it as it's occurring
"Death is ruining me. Death is stealing from me. Death is dancing me ragged."

Filmed over the course of 27 YEARS (non-continuous, still impressive), N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Adult female is a documentary with a very tight narrative covering a few different things. One is the growth, maturation, and modify of N!ai herself. Another is the cultural practices of an indigenous people pre-colonization. And yet another is the change in the larger !Kung society, and Due north!ai's tribe, the Ju/'hoan, specifically, brought about past white Due south African (is at that place a reason we didn't call them Dutch? They were definitely Dutch) colonizers.

There is a ton of information and footage packed into this 58 minute presentation, well too much to go…
By its nature, a documentary is a project designed to educate in i matter or another. This short documentary takes us on a cultural journey over about three decades through the eyes of a !Kung adult female, and is effective, even if too brusque to really connect with. Similar to maybe the filmmakers of the famous Seven Upwards series, the documentary filmmakers here followed a girl over 27 years, visiting every 5 years or so to get a sense of what's going on with her. It's very clear that jealousy rises in her neighbors equally the years wear on, as N!ai is making money and they're not. Beyond that, though, this documentary captures a very interesting catamenia in this tribe's history…
52 Years in 52 Weeks: 2020 Edition
31/52

"Death is stealing from me. Will death steal me besides?"
American Anthropologist John Marshall spent virtually 30 years filming the !Kung people of the Kalahari desert in Africa, and one of the products of that lifetime of enquiry is this hour-long documentary — on which editor Adrienne Meismer gets a co-managing director credit — well-nigh the life of one !Kung woman, starting at around age 8, only before her wedlock. Overall, NǃAI, THE STORY OF A ǃKUNG WOMAN (1980) is an archetypal ethnographic film, a format which Marshall is credited with pioneering: Through its hushed proto-NPR format, it observes daily life and rituals, and stops merely brusk of explicitly idealizing the culture it depicts or advocating for cosmetic action, though at that place are unmistakable whiffs of both throughout.

While any 60-infinitesimal edit…
I wonder what giraffe tastes similar
What a beautiful documentary. Examines the forcible civilization of a nomad people, beginning past depriving them of freedom, inducing starvation which leads to squabbles over property which pushes them further into this conflicting idea of civilization.
omg I used to recollect Malcolm X needed to arctic when he said all white people are inherently evil but ........ he might have a point tbh
Death is stealing from me. Death is dancing me ragged.

Death is literally colonizers and yt people. This documentary was for a course, and I truly call back my prof chose it for mode. It was admittedly cruel and the field of anthropology is both destruction and the profit of it. Things like this brand me reconsider what I see in anthro and why am I here. Admittedly insane to brand sense of but the humanity of people and what is stolen from them is a clear compass. Unless you don't have a heart or conscience.
A pretty skilful ethymological documentary that as well shows at some point, how not to shoot a documentary!
Even in the 1 hour short time, you get attached to North!ai and get immersed in her story, overall a good movie!
Watched this for my anthropology class. It's a pretty impressive documentary scope wise (shot over 27 years) that effectively shows the negative effects of apartheid on the traditional lifestyle of the !Kung people. However, It is a tough lookout man for that reason. Seeing in almost real fourth dimension how the infrastructure of this community changes and crumbles is really heartbreaking and upsetting, and the mode nosotros see the colonizers collaborate with the !Kung as if they were zoo animals in borderline nauseating. If tin can notice it, it's certainly an interesting portrait of colonialism through the perspective of i woman.