REPLY: Film for teaching African history

Mel Page (PAGEM@ETSUARTS.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU)
Sun, 21 May 1995 16:53:02 GMT-5

Date sent: Wed, 17 May 1995
From: Eugenia Herbert, Mount Holyoke College
<eherbert@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>

Apropo of using "The Gods Must Be Crazy" for teaching purposes. You
may well be aware of the sequence in the John Marshall film "N!ai, The
Story of a !Kung Woman" that shows the squalor of a Bushman camp in
Namibia and then the arrival of the film crew to shoot the pristine coke
bottle scene. You may not have the time to show all this, but it's the
best way I know to use The Gods Must Be Crazy to provoke discussion about
the noble savage myth.