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Title N/um tchai [electronic resource] : the ceremonial dance of the!Kung Bushmen / by John Marshall.

Imprint Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009, 1969.
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Description 1 online resource (20 min.).
Content two-dimensional moving image
Carrier online resource
Series Kung
Ethnographic video online.
Note Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 2, 2013).
Summary Documents a formalized Bushman curing ceremony in the Kalahari Desert area of South West Africa by showing an all-night n/um tchai (medicine dance) in which a number of men go into trance and exercise special curing powers. Divided into two parts: the first reviews and explains typical dance scenes; the second shows the ceremony without narration.
Language This edition in English.
Subject !Kung (African people) -- Social life and customs.
!Kung (African people) -- Kalahari Desert.
Dance -- Religious aspects.
Healing -- Religious aspects.
Added Author Marshall, John, 1932-2005.
Bushman Film Studios.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Added Title Num tchai
Ceremonial dance of the!Kung Bushmen
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