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The Hunters is a 1957 ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored expedition in 1952–53. [2]
The BBC's The Life of Mammals (2003) series includes video footage of an indigenous San of the Kalahari desert undertaking a persistence hunt of a kudu through harsh desert conditions. [81] It provides an illustration of how early man may have pursued and captured prey with minimal weaponry.
The San people have lived in the Kalahari for 20,000 years as hunter-gatherers. [18] They hunt wild game with bows and poisoned arrows and gather edible plants, such as berries, melons and nuts, as well as insects. The San get most of their water requirements from plant roots and desert melons found on or under the desert floor.
[1] [6] From 1950 to 1958 Marshall filmed the hunting and gathering life of the Juǀʼhoansi. [7] His first edited film, The Hunters, was released in 1957. The Hunters told the story of a Juǀʼhoansi giraffe hunt. Marshall later realized he had unintentionally romanticized Juǀʼhoansi life.
The documentary was filmed partially on the Kalahari Desert, where Uys first encountered the San people and "fell in love with them". [3] Uys chose a Coca-Cola bottle as the object that the San people would discover and covet in The Gods Must Be Crazy because he felt that the bottle was representative of "our plastic society", and because it ...
Central Kalahari Game Reserve is an extensive national park in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Established in 1961 it covers an area of 52,800 square kilometres (20,400 sq mi) (larger than the Netherlands , and almost 10% of Botswana's total land area), making it the second largest game reserve in the world. [ 1 ]
The ǃKung people of Southern Africa recognize a Supreme Being, ǃXu, who is the Creator and Upholder of life. [4] Like other African High Gods, he also punishes man by means of the weather, and the Otjimpolo-ǃKung know him as Erob, who "knows everything". [5]
Sands of the Kalahari is a 1965 British adventure film starring Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York, Harry Andrews, Theodore Bikel and Nigel Davenport, based on the 1960 novel The Sands of Kalahari by William Mulvihill. [1] The screenplay was written by Cy Endfield and the uncredited William Mulvihill and directed by Cy Endfield.