A Kalahari Family

A Kalahari Family

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A Kalahari Family

2001

1 Seasons

5 Episodes

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A five-part series documenting 50 years in the lives of the Ju/'hoansi of southern Africa, from 1951 to 2000. These once independent hunter-gatherers experience dispossession, confinement to a homeland, and the chaos of war.

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John Marshall

John Marshall

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Toma Tsamkxao

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