An Argument about a Marriage
name: label: Collection Collaborator
content: McElwee, Ross
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Blitz, Daniel
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bishop, John Melville
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Baker, Peter
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Ritchie, Claire
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Young, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Terry, John
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Galvin, Frank
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bestall, Clifford
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Gardner, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
label: Collection Creator
content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Marshall, Lorna
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content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection
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content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 2: Published Films and Videos
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (sound, color reversal; 669 feet (18.5 minutes), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1983.11, File 2005.11.19
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This short film, shot in 1957-58, documents an argument that occurred when several
families returned to Nyae Nyae after working as unpaid laborers on a white farm. An
Argument about a Marriage raises questions about the impact of European
farms on the economic and social life of the Ju/'hoansi; about the complexities of
marriage rules and bride-service in this kinship system; and about the nature of conflict
and its mediation among Ju/'hoansi. There is film and audio relating to an alternate
beginning for this title. An early, unpublished version of this film also exists; see
2005.11.45 in Series 3.