This text explores the life and art of the pioneering ethnographic film maker, John Marshall. Its centrepiece is an autobiographical essay in which Marshall assesses his 40-year involvement with the San peoples (Bushmen) of South Africa, and his films, from the 1957 award-winning "The Hunters" to his work in progress, "Death by Myth". The book weaves together the political economy of San dispossession, San history, personal narratives of historical importance, and expositions of film techniques and film language.
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"This book demonstrates powerfully that documentary film is a major component of contemporary ethnography." -- Paul Stoller of School of American Research and West Chester State University, Pennsylvania
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Jay Ruby's overview of John K. Marshall's remarkable oeuvre featuring the San tribes of Namibia and Botswana, as well as his documentaries made in the USA is a good, if not insightful, account of what Marshall filmed over decades in southern Africa and the eastern USA. Marshall's is the camerawork that made Frederick Wiseman's Titicutt Follies the masterpiece it became. The late Richard Leacock said, "John Marshall is the most talented and under-appreciated documentary filmmaker of our generation." Ruby gives us a good introduction to the filmmaker.
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In 1986 the United States ambassador asked the foreign minister of the Republic of South Africa if his government was going ahead with a plan to complete the dispossession of the peoples called "Bushmen" in South West Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Marshall, Nyae Nyae, Eastern Bushmanland, South African, American Anthropologist, Randy Franken, Laurence Marshall, New York, Claire Ritchie, Frank Galvin, Chat Gunter, Peabody Museum, Chris Tilliam, Documentary Educational Resources, Sue Marshall Cabezas, Patricia Draper, Harvard University, Cape Town, Bitter Melons, Cliff Bestall, Kung San, Megan Biesele, World War, Bushmen of the Kalahari, Loma Marshall New!
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In 1986 the United States ambassador asked the foreign minister of the Republic of South Africa if his government was going ahead with a plan to complete the dispossession of the peoples called "Bushmen" in South West Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Marshall, Nyae Nyae, Eastern Bushmanland, South African, American Anthropologist, Randy Franken, Laurence Marshall, New York, Claire Ritchie, Frank Galvin, Chat Gunter, Peabody Museum, Chris Tilliam, Documentary Educational Resources, Sue Marshall Cabezas, Patricia Draper, Harvard University, Cape Town, Bitter Melons, Cliff Bestall, Kung San, Megan Biesele, World War, Bushmen of the Kalahari, Loma Marshall New!
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- The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas on 5 pages
- Kung of Nyae Nyae by Lorna J. Marshall on page 130, and page 193
- The Animal Wife by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas on page 192, and page 193
- The Animal Wife by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas on page 192, and page 193
- Civil War by Geoffrey Ward on page 68, and page 131
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- Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives by John L. Comaroff on page 101, and page 102
- Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives by Peter Veth on page 31, and page 32
- Transcultural Cinema by David MacDougall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses by David MacDougall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film (Studies in Visual Culture) by E.D Lewis on page 16, and Back Matter
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