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Rereading the Gods Must be Crazy Films

2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/08949460600598711

1545-5920

Keyan G. Tomaselli,

Archaeology and Rock Art Studies

Studies of Jamie Uys's Gods Must be Crazy films have tended to focus on his pseudo-ethnographic representation of “Bushmen,” from primarily Western perspectives, both anthropological and anti-apartheid. This study examines critically the wider corpus of Uys's feature films, especially those employing “Bushmen” characters, in terms of intertextual relations. The article offers the comments of many San viewers of the films and also conveys the perspective of Gao, the main Ju/'hoansi actor. Finally, the study examines responses from the anthropological community to the films.