zweidimensionales bewegtes Bild

!ko-Buschmänner (Südafrika, Kalahari) - Mädchen-Initiation

Fünftägige Zeremonie für eine Initiandin beim Einsetzen der Menarche. Das Mädchen wird in einer isolierten Einzelhütte untergebracht. Am fünften Tag wird es geschmückt und verläßt die Hütte, während Männer und Frauen einen Fruchtbarkeitstanz aufführen.
The film, a compressed version of a five day ritual, shows an initiate sitting in her hut being stripped of her jewellery, capped, and painted. She is then carried to an especially built isolation hut and placed on grass while women dance the eland dance around it. Her period of isolation and teaching ends on the fifth day when she is turned around, washed, decorated, anointed, and face-painted to resemble a gemsbok brow. She is ritually introduced to all the objects of her daily life and to her foods and induced to shoot at a gemsbok shield with a man's especially protected weapon. Her ritual being a rebirth, the girl is led out of the hut and assisted in walking while men and women dance the eland-bull-fertility dance around the hut. Next day she is led round the village to receive presents, to meet the people and bring luck to their homes.

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Alternative title
!ko Bushmen (South Africa, Kalahari Desert) - Girls' Initiation
Location
Hannover TIB
Extent
136MB, 00:11:03:21 (unknown)
Notes
Audiovisuelles Material
Stummfilm
Silent movie

Bibliographic citation
!ko-Buschmänner (Südafrika, Kalahari) - Mädchen-Initiation ; (Jan. 1975)

Keyword
Tanz
rite of passage
Brauchtum / Lebenskreis
!ko Bushmen
Kulturwissenschaften
rite / initiation
Initiation
Lebenslauf
Botsuana
Afrika
initiation
Ritus / Rites de passage
Ritus / Initiation
Botswana
dance
Seklusionshütte
Reifebräuche
Gesellschaft
Brauchtum / Reifebräuche
rite / rite of passage
Encyclopaedia Cinematographica
Bräuche
society
cultural studies
!ko-Buschmänner
Ethnologie/Kulturanthropologie
customs
Africa
course of life
custom / rite of passage
Rites de passage
custom / circle of life
ethnology/cultural anthropology
seclusion hut

Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
IWF (Göttingen)
(when)
1975-01-01
Contributor
Heunemann, Dieter
Heinz, Hans-Joachim

DOI
10.3203/IWF/E-1849
Last update
04.12.2024, 8:09 AM CET

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Object type

  • zweidimensionales bewegtes Bild

Associated

  • Heunemann, Dieter
  • Heinz, Hans-Joachim
  • IWF (Göttingen)

Time of origin

  • 1975-01-01

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