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Title Bitter melons
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [1986?], ©1971

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (30 min.))
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary Portrays the difficulty of survival in the central Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. A native musician, a member of a Bushman group called the G/wi, performs songs about animals, the land, and daily life. Describes the G/wi, traditional music, dances, children's games, and hunting, planting, and food preparation
Event Motion picture filmed on an expedition in 1955 and released in 1971 ; videorecording released in 1986
Notes Print version record
Subject San (African people) -- Social life and customs
G/wi (African people) -- Social life and customs
San (African people) -- Songs and music
G/wi (African people) -- Songs and music
G/wi (African people)
San (African people)
San (African people) -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Africa, Southern -- Songs and music
Kalahari Desert -- Songs and music
Subject Africa -- Kalahari Desert
Southern Africa.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentary films.
Songs and music.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Marshall, John, 1932-2005.
Marshall, Lorna.
Galvin, Frank
England, Nicholas, active 1557-1568.
Blitz, Daniel
Reichlin, Seth