South Africa, Kalahari Desert (!Ko Bushmen) -- Festival Dance "Guma"
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.188; E01830
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (11 minutes, color silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film: an edited film compressing several hours of celebration into a short period of time. During the dance the men symbolically take the evil out of the women's bodies (which a harmful god has placed there) and put the spirit into their own. Trance dancing, wailing prayers, and explosive retching follows.
Legacy Keywords: South Africa ; South Africa, Kalahari Desert ; Africa; !Ko Bushmen