N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen [WorldCat Entities]

"Ceremonial dance of the!Kun Bushmen"
"Ceremonial dance of the!Kung Bushmen"@en
"Ceremonial dance of the !Kung Bushmen"
"Num tchai : ceremonial dance of the!Kun Bushmen"
"Language of the Seeds"
"Num tchai"
"Num tchai"@en

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"A study of the medicine dance which brings together the!Kung people of different bands and families in Botswana for the purposes of communal healing and well-being. A narrated introduction shows typical dance scenes and explains their meaning."@en
"Documents a formalized Bushman curing ceremony in the Kalahari Desert area of Southwest Africa by showing an all-night "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 subtitles or narration."@en
"Documents a formalized Bushman curing ceremony in the Kalahari Desert of Southwest Africa by showing an all-night "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 subtitles or narration."@en
"A documentary film on the trance dance ritual of the Kung Bushmen. Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In the 1950's, when this film was shot, the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn. In this film, women sit on the ground, clapping and singing and occasionally dancing a round or two, while men circle around them, singing and stamping rhythms with their feet. The songs are wordless but named: "rain," "sun," "honey," "giraffe," and other "strong things." The strength of the songs is their n/um, or medicine, thought to be a gift from the great god. N/um is also in the fire, and even more so in the "owners of medicine," or healers. Most Ju/'hoan men would practice as healers at some point in their lives, and in this film we see several men in various stages of trance. A light trance gradually deepens, as the medicine grows "hot," and eventually some men will cry out and fall on hot coals, entering the state called "half-death." The film opens with a brief introduction to the role of n/um tchai in healing and in warding off evil, followed by scenes from one all-night dance. The dance begins with a social gathering and becomes increasingly intense as the night wears on, finally concluding at dawn. At the time of filming the Ju/'hoansi were one of the few surviving Kalahari groups that lived by hunting and gathering. During his time in the Kalahari, director John Marshall shot over 600,000 feet of film from which 24 films on the Ju/'hoansi, have been edited. These films on the lives and culture of the Kung people constitute a body of work that continue to define the fields of anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking today."
"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."@en
"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."
"The film opens with a brief introduction to the role of n/um tchai in healing and in warding off evil, followed by scenes from an all-night dance."@en
"In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn. In this film, women sit on the ground, clapping and singing and occasionally dancing a round or two, while men circle around them, singing and stamping rhythms with their feet."
"In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn. In this film, women sit on the ground, clapping and singing and occasionally dancing a round or two, while men circle around them, singing and stamping rhythms with their feet."@en
"The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life on the Kalhari Desert that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the !Kung take pleasure in music and dancing, and enjoy the sociability of the occasion. From the !Kung and G/wi Bushmen series."
"Features the dance of the Bushman medicine man, showing it to be both religiously significant in its purpose of warding off death and culturally significant in the music and dancing employed."@en
"Documents a formalized Bushman curing ceremony in the Kalahari Desert area of Southwest Africa by showing an all-night "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 subtitles or narration."