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John Marshall's Kalahari Family.

Authors :
Durington, Matthew
Source :
American Anthropologist. Sep2004, Vol. 106 Issue 3, p589-594. 6p.
Publication Year :
2004

Abstract

Throughout his career and through his films, John Marshall has embodied many representational debates in anthropology and ethnographic media production. With A Kalahari Family, Marshall has provided his most reflexive film to date as well as a comprehensive visual record of 50 years of transition among the Ju/'hoansi, from lingering, hunter-gatherer subsistence to problematic and often tragic contemporary living conditions. A Kalahari Family bears witness to the negative effects a racist ideology and varied development agendas have had on an indigehous group of people, and the transformative effects they continue to have. In the film, the audience also witnesses the evolution of John Marshall himself, from naive, inexperienced teenager engaging an exotic other, with all the inherent cultural baggage of a Western perspective, to his eventual emergence as a filmmaker and a dedicated advocate for the people with whom he has become so involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00027294
Volume :
106
Issue :
3
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
American Anthropologist
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
14524501
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.589