!Kung Short Films color/black & white, 161 minutes
Recently honored with entry into UNESCO’s prestigious Memory of the World Register, John Marshall’s intimate filmed portraits of the daily life and ritual life of Ju/’hoansi are considered as one of the seminal visual anthropology works of the twentieth century. UNESCO says the collection “…is unique in the world for the scope of its sustained audiovisual documentation of one cultural group,” and that these films are “an unparalleled historical record not only of an indigenous people’s traditional lifeways and ties to the land but of the transformation of these lifeways in the rapidly changing political and economic landscape…”. Rich in ethnographic detail, beauty and high emotional content, this collection combines fourteen of Marshall’s short !Kung films onto two newly remastered/re-authored DVDs, complete with a full-color booklet containing photos, writings, and additional information about the series.