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The Hunters (1957 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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 195253. In addition to the giraffe hunt, the film shows other aspects of !Kung life at that time, including family relationships, socializing and storytelling, and the hard work of gathering plant foods and hunting for small game.
The film was produced at the Film Study Center of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University by John Marshall in collaboration with Robert Gardner. It won the Robert J. Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1958, and was named to the US National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress in 2003 for its "cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance". 'The Hunters' was preserved in 2000 with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
In his book 'At The Edge of History', William Irwin Thompson uses the structure of 'The Hunters' to model the universal form of conflict in values in human institutions.
See also
* List of American films of 1957
References
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