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SeÌance reflections
Title
SeÌance reflections / produced by the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research ; a film by Richard Werbner.
Published
Manchester, England : University of Manchester, 2004.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (43 min.).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Documentary.
This edition in English and Tswana with English subtitles.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Njebe and Martha, a couple from Gaborone, Botswana, have tried various medical interventions to determine the reason why they remain childless. They decide to consult a charismatic diviner and healer in Njebe's birth village, Moremi. In reviewing portions of their filmed seÌances with ethnographer Richard Werbner, the couple are moved by the diviner's revelations about their intimate lives, but are puzzled by the diviner's rapid recital of highly ambiguous, archaic verse, his leading them in chants of call and response, and his preaching against Christianity and for restored communication with the ancestors, leaving the couple doubting the healing treatment.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Other formats
DVD version: SeÌance reflections. Manchester, England : University of Manchester, 2004
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Tswana
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2019
Series
Ethnographic video online ; volume 1
Subjects
Genre/Form
Encoded moving images.
Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, production company.
University of Manchester, production company.
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