A ! Kung Woman Analysis
Module 7 Activity – Anthropological look at the films of John Marshall
Tonight you will watch N!ai, the story of a !Kung Woman through the guise of a budding anthropologist.
While viewing the film look for at least 3 ways in which you can understand the culture of the !Kung from an anthropological perspective. List these areas below and be prepared to discuss them following the film.
Perspective 1-
The first thing that I noticed is the material stage of this culture. These people are still in the gathering hunting stage where they live on what they can glean from the natural immediate resources such as fruit and hunting wild animals for food. As she said in the film "They were “not considered poor before the “White people”came around, and when the white people came they were forced to settle down and they had to live in an overcrowded …show more content…
How do each of these contribute toward our understanding of this culture and the massive change that they witnessed?
This cultural is undergoing a strong changes in their material life where a new technological ways of pumping water are introduces.
It is undergoing some behavioral changes like the heavy consumption of Liquor which contribute to their misery.
Do you think the !Kung culture can survive given the massive impact that modernization had upon them?
This film was made before the end of the racist white rule in South Africa. This racist attitude is evident in the film where the white administer says that these people like the white man and thing that he is intelligent!
I don’t think that this culture will survive the heave changes that are introduced in their traditional lives. The education of their kids will cut them from the old ways of life, and this will lead eventually to massive changes in their family
Tonight you will watch N!ai, the story of a !Kung Woman through the guise of a budding anthropologist.
While viewing the film look for at least 3 ways in which you can understand the culture of the !Kung from an anthropological perspective. List these areas below and be prepared to discuss them following the film.
Perspective 1-
The first thing that I noticed is the material stage of this culture. These people are still in the gathering hunting stage where they live on what they can glean from the natural immediate resources such as fruit and hunting wild animals for food. As she said in the film "They were “not considered poor before the “White people”came around, and when the white people came they were forced to settle down and they had to live in an overcrowded …show more content…
How do each of these contribute toward our understanding of this culture and the massive change that they witnessed?
This cultural is undergoing a strong changes in their material life where a new technological ways of pumping water are introduces.
It is undergoing some behavioral changes like the heavy consumption of Liquor which contribute to their misery.
Do you think the !Kung culture can survive given the massive impact that modernization had upon them?
This film was made before the end of the racist white rule in South Africa. This racist attitude is evident in the film where the white administer says that these people like the white man and thing that he is intelligent!
I don’t think that this culture will survive the heave changes that are introduced in their traditional lives. The education of their kids will cut them from the old ways of life, and this will lead eventually to massive changes in their family