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Title N/um tchai : the ceremonial dance of the !Kung Bushmen / a Documentary Educational Resources production ; written, directed, [and] produced by John Marshall
Published [Watertown, Mass.] : Documentary Educational Resources, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (20 min.)) : sound, black and white
Series !Kung
Summary Documents a formalized Bushman curing ceremony in the Kalahari Desert area of South West Africa by showing an all-night n/um tchai (medicine dance) in which a number of men go into trance and exercise special curing powers. Divided into two parts: the first reviews and explains typical dance scenes; the second shows the ceremony without narration
Notes Documentary originally released in 1969
Credits Photography, John Marshall ; editing, Frank Galvin
Performer Narration, John Marshall ; members of the !Kung Bushmen, Nyae Nyae region, Namibia
Event Film footage taken on an expedition sponsored by The Peabody Museum of Harvard University and the Smithsonian Instituion 1957
Notes Narration in English; singing in !Kung
Closed-captioned (optional)
Description based on online resource; title from resource web page (viewed February 8, 2021)
Subject !Kung (African people) -- Namibia -- Tsumkwe District -- Social life and customs
Dance -- Namibia -- Tsumkwe District -- Religious aspects
Healing -- Namibia -- Tsumkwe District -- Religious aspects
Dance -- Religious aspects
Healing -- Religious aspects
!Kung (African people) -- Social life and customs
Namibia -- Tsumkwe District
Genre/Form documentary film.
Feature films
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Nonfiction films
Short films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Courts métrages.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Form Streaming video
Author Marshall, John, 1932-2005, screenwriter, film director, film producer, narrator, director of photography.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), production company.
Other Titles Num tchai
Ceremonial dance of the !Kung Bushmen
Ceremonial dance of the Kung Bushmen