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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana. The hardships of their everyday survival are woven into the songs of a blind musician, Ukxone, who composes music on a hunting bow.
2) The Hunters
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This re-release of an early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period. The film was shot in 1952-53 on the third joint Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored Marshall family expedition to Africa to study Ju/'hoansi, one of the few surviving groups that lived by hunting - gathering.
3) First Film
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
First Film was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the Kalahari Desert. It is intimate in style, very carefully filmed, with a wealth of practical information about the material culture and structure of Ju/'hoan (!Kung Bushmen) hunter-gatherer society.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In comparison to !Kung San: Traditional Life, this video shows some of the dramatic changes in life-style that Ju/'hoansi had experienced by 1986. No longer able to rely on hunting and gathering for subsistence, Ju/'hoansi collect mealie meal welfare, spend money earned from army jobs on alcohol and consumer goods, and live in a crowded area with increased fighting and illness.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This video depicts traditional Ju/'hoan life by using vignettes from longer films in the !Kung San series. Footage selected shows tool-making technology, hunting and gathering, social life and children at play, and gives the viewer a feel for the vastness and beauty of the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
For thousands of years Ju/'hoansi have lived in the Nyae Nyae region in northeastern Namibia. In the 1950s, most Ju/'hoansi had been exterminated or were dispossessed by white colonists and black farmers, but in Nyae Nyae Ju/'hoansi were still the only permanent inhabitants.
Author
Series
Kung Pow Chicken volume Book 4
Formats
Description
When the Blue family travels to New Yolk City, Egg Drop wants to go to the first-ever Sidekick Super-Con--a big party for sidekicks--but Ticklebeak and his Bad Eggs soon chicknap the sidekicks and it is up to Kung Pow Chicken to save them.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In 1951, the Marshall family set out to document the life of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. After a week of hard travel in desert-adapted vehicles, they met Toma Tsamkxao and his Ju/'hoan band in Nyae Nyae. In their own words, Toma's extended family describes how they survive by gathering bush foods and hunting game. Thus begins a relationship between the Ju/'hoansi and the Marshalls that will last over half a century.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
John Marshall is reunited with Toma's family in 1978. Like a majority of Ju/'hoansi, they have settled at Tjum!kui, an administrative post run by the South African government. They came looking for water, jobs and an easier life, but found poverty, malnutrition and violence. Desperate for a more stable existence, the family heads back to their traditional water hole, /Aotcha, with shovels, cattle, and plans to start farming.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Ju/'hoan farming communities multiply during the 1980s only to face a new threat. The Department of Nature Conservation wants to create a game reserve on Ju/'hoan territory. People will be forbidden to raise livestock or crops. Instead, Ju/'hoansi will be encouraged to act like "Bushmen" and hunt for the amusement of tourists. Urgent grass roots organizing ensues as the people seek to control their traditional lands.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
After twelve decades of colonial rule, South West Africa is about to become the independent nation of Namibia and people are looking forward to democratic rule. Members of the newly formed, Ju/'hoan Farmers' Co-op travel throughout white ranching districts and black ethnic homelands to find long-lost relatives. Following Namibia's first national elections, United Nation troops help relocate these families to traditional Ju/'hoan territory.
14) Bok! bok! boom!
Author
Series
Kung Pow Chicken volume Book 2
Publisher
Branches Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Superheroes Gordon Blue and his brother Benny must rescue an opera star from the evil Dr. Screech before he turns her super high voice into a supersonic weapon.
Author
Series
Kung Pow Chicken volume Book 3
Publisher
Branches Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Superheroes Kung Pow Chicken and Egg Drop must stop the evil Birdbrain from zapping the smartest chickens in Fowladelphia into zombies.
16) Jurassic peck
Author
Series
Kung Pow Chicken volume Book 5
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
An accident in Professor Quack's lab sends Gordon Blue (otherwise known as Kung Pow Chicken) and his companions, Egg Drop and Beak Girl, back to dinosaur times, where they meet Dr. Strangebok, an evil chicken who wants to bring dinosaurs to Fowladelphia and take over the city--and the three superheroes, with help from a friendly dinosaur named Sweet Tooth, must find a way to stop her before she turns the city into a buffet lunch for her dinos.
Author
Series
Description
Kung Pow Chicken is everyone's favorite avian superhero!
This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In the third book in this full-color series, Gordon's birdy senses are tingling like...
Author
Series
Description
Everyone's favorite superhero, Kung Pow Chicken, is back!
This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In the second book in this full-color series, Gordon Blue's mom drags him to a night...
Author
Series
Description
Pick a book. Grow a Reader!
This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!
In the fifth installment of this action-packed full-color series, heroes Kung Pow Chicken, Egg Drop, and Beak Girl go back in time...
Author
Series
Description
This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!
In this exciting full-color series, Gordon Blue transforms into Kung Pow Chicken, an avian superhero who fights crime in the city of Fowladelphia....
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