Filmmaker: John Marshall; Filmed in: South Africa, Namibia;
Cultural Influence: Represents a story of one !Kung woman's journey over the course of 27 years as she grows through the changes in her foraging band and gives light to the structure of sexuality in her culture.
Cultural Influence: Represents a story of one !Kung woman's journey over the course of 27 years as she grows through the changes in her foraging band and gives light to the structure of sexuality in her culture.
This focus film was a wonderful representation of the reality from "The Gods Must Be Crazy". The first concept that was evident in the film was structured around bride service and the age in which little girls are promised to an older man. When the girls are younger like the main character in the film, the groom ask the parents for their daughter in return they will work for them. In the beginning, the young women were miserable and hated the idea of marrying these men however, N!ai over the years began to grow closer to her husband and now she is comfortable in their marriage and enjoys his company. The second concept is about culture change with a large emphasis on seditism where the white people came in to take over and forced N!ai and her people to settle. They had to settle on a little bit of turf without any choice and learned how to make do with the small source of food and housing space. Cross-cultural communication is another key concept within this short clip that we watched. In the short clip, we were able to witness a pastor to is alone by a well with some of the Ju/'hoan women and this representation of what Christianity has to offers makes an appearance and intrigues along with frightens these women who are standing by this stranger who called himself "God's son". The ending was a great representation of the anthropological perspective of sexuality and change in these women's' life.
The film was mentioned in the chapter for a reason, when compared to "The Gods Must Be Crazy", these people had to suffer without a voice for too long. The classification of someone based on whether they are healthy or not is ridiculous and I think that is an awful fact that was clearly evident in the small portion of the film that we saw. The story of the Ju/'hoan women focused on N!ai and with her cooperation, she was paid which caused a lot of issues for her because you do not share money. These issues kept growing and that backlash was unbearable and unfair. I found it interesting that N!ai fell in love with her husband over the years and their relationship is strong especially since she was married off at 7 years of age.
The film was mentioned in the chapter for a reason, when compared to "The Gods Must Be Crazy", these people had to suffer without a voice for too long. The classification of someone based on whether they are healthy or not is ridiculous and I think that is an awful fact that was clearly evident in the small portion of the film that we saw. The story of the Ju/'hoan women focused on N!ai and with her cooperation, she was paid which caused a lot of issues for her because you do not share money. These issues kept growing and that backlash was unbearable and unfair. I found it interesting that N!ai fell in love with her husband over the years and their relationship is strong especially since she was married off at 7 years of age.