N Ai the Story of a Kung Woman Review

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N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman

This motion picture provides a wide overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. Northward!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a thirty yr period. "Before the white people came we did what we wanted," N!ai recalls, describing the life she remembers as a child: post-obit her mother to pick berries, roots, and nuts as the season inverse; the partitioning of giraffe meat; the kinds of rain; her resistance to her marriage to /Gunda at the age of 8; and her irresolute feelings about her husband when he becomes a healer. Every bit Due north!ai speaks, the film presents scenes from the 1950'due south that show her as a immature daughter and a immature wife. The uniqueness of Due north!ai may lie in its tight integration of ethnography and history. While it portrays the changes in Ju/'hoan social club over thirty years, it never loses sight of the individual, N!ai.

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wishing all colonizers a very d!east
my anthropology class is and then depressing bc information technology's just stories upon stories virtually how white people destroy indigenous culture while other white people certificate it as it'due south occurring
"Expiry is ruining me. Death is stealing from me. Death is dancing me ragged."

Filmed over the course of 27 YEARS (not-continuous, still impressive), N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman is a documentary with a very tight narrative roofing 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 N!ai'south tribe, the Ju/'hoan, specifically, brought almost by white Due south African (is there a reason nosotros didn't call them Dutch? They were definitely Dutch) colonizers.

There is a ton of data and footage packed into this 58 minute presentation, well too much to become…
By its nature, a documentary is a project designed to educate in ane thing or some other. This short documentary takes u.s.a. on a cultural journeying over near three decades through the eyes of a !Kung adult female, and is effective, even if too short to actually connect with. Similar to mayhap the filmmakers of the famous 7 Up series, the documentary filmmakers here followed a daughter over 27 years, visiting every five years or so to get a sense of what'southward going on with her. It's very articulate that jealousy rises in her neighbors as the years wear on, as N!ai is making money and they're not. Beyond that, though, this documentary captures a very interesting menses in this tribe's history…
52 Years in 52 Weeks: 2020 Edition
31/52

"Death is stealing from me. Volition death steal me too?"
American Anthropologist John Marshall spent virtually 30 years filming the !Kung people of the Kalahari desert in Africa, and i of the products of that lifetime of research is this hour-long documentary — on which editor Adrienne Meismer gets a co-director credit — about the life of one !Kung woman, starting at effectually age 8, only before her marriage. Overall, NǃAI, THE STORY OF A ǃKUNG WOMAN (1980) is an archetypal ethnographic motion-picture show, a format which Marshall is credited with pioneering: Through its hushed proto-NPR format, information technology observes daily life and rituals, and stops just short of explicitly idealizing the culture it depicts or advocating for corrective action, though in that location are unmistakable whiffs of both throughout.

While any threescore-minute edit…
I wonder what giraffe tastes like
What a cute documentary. Examines the forcible civilization of a nomad people, first past depriving them of freedom, inducing starvation which leads to squabbles over property which pushes them further into this alien idea of civilization.
omg I used to remember Malcolm 10 needed to chill when he said all white people are inherently evil but ........ he might take a point tbh
Death is stealing from me. Death is dancing me ragged.

Expiry is literally colonizers and yt people. This documentary was for a course, and I truly retrieve my prof chose information technology for style. It was absolutely brutal and the field of anthropology is both devastation and the turn a profit of information technology. Things like this make me reconsider what I run across in anthro and why am I here. Absolutely insane to make sense of but the humanity of people and what is stolen from them is a articulate compass. Unless you don't have a heart or conscience.
A pretty practiced ethymological documentary that besides shows at some signal, how not to shoot a documentary!
Even in the i hr brusque time, yous become attached to N!ai and get immersed in her story, overall a good film!
Watched this for my anthropology form. Information technology'due south a pretty impressive documentary scope wise (shot over 27 years) that effectively shows the negative furnishings of apartheid on the traditional lifestyle of the !Kung people. However, Information technology is a tough picket for that reason. Seeing in virtually real time how the infrastructure of this customs changes and crumbles is actually heartbreaking and upsetting, and the way we see the colonizers interact with the !Kung as if they were zoo animals in borderline nauseating. If can find it, it'due south certainly an interesting portrait of colonialism through the perspective of ane woman.