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Séance reflections
Title
Séance reflections [electronic resource] / produced by the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research ; a film by Richard Werbner.
Published
Manchester, England : University of Manchester, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (43 min.).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Documentary.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition in English and Tswana with English subtitles.
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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 séances 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
Ethnographic video online.
Other formats
Previously released as DVD.
Original
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Tswana
Added to Catalog
December 11, 2013
Series
Ethnographic video online ; volume 1
Subjects
Also listed under
International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research.
University of Manchester.
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