Summary Of N ! Ai: A Story Of A ! Kung Woman

In N!ai: A Story of a !Kung Woman, anthropologist John Marshall was able to study the effects of colonization as well as advocate for his subject. He was able to meet science and advocacy and bring together a successful documentary where the subject is being advocated. N!ai tells her own story in the film and recounts how she lived as a child and how colonization effected her and the !Kung. They filmed in a span of thirty years following the effects while following N!ai’s life as a !Kung woman.
N!ai comments that they were once free to roam the land and because of the colonists they were restricted to living in half the territory they original had and have little food or water. They were also dying from tuberculosis, which had not been an issue before colonization. The !Kung began to go to war so they could have money. The tribe had become more selfish and suspicious of each other. They were all very hungry and only got a certain amount of food given to them by the government. The film accurately depicts how colonization effected the people of the !Kung before and after colonization. The !Kung were once free and after colonization they were restricted.
The film also shows how the filmmaker becomes a …show more content…
The coke bottle becomes problematic because there is only one and they now find it useful. They all want to use it and start fighting and getting jealous. We see how small things can change society like we saw N!ai: The story of a !Kung woman. The difference in Secrets of the Tribe is that Chagnon, Neel, Good, and Lizot did not try to keep from interfering in the lives of their subjects but deeply disturbed their lives. The Yanomami were doing fine before they came to disrupt their lives. This is why they don’t want anthropologists studying them anymore. The few that remain do not want to be studied because they had been