Tracks Across Sands: Overture # 8

Tracks Across Sands

Overture: 17:15, Thursday 13th June, Museum Auditorium

Aftermath: 10:00, Friday 14th June, CMB 5

rai 8 overture-and-aftermath

  • Director/Anthropologist: Hugh Brody
  • Year of Release: 2013
  • Duration: 30 mins
  • Country of Production: Canada/ South Africa
  • Location: South Africa
  • Ethnic Group: San

 

From 1996 to 2008, Hugh Brody worked wtih the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari on their land claim. This work generated over 130 hours of footage. The resulting interactive DVD compilation contains 16 chapters (total 4.5 hours).

For the San living within South Africa, the apartheid regime meant a final eviction from their last remaining lands. Denied the right even to speak their own languages, the ‡Khomani became a diaspora of people, fighting for their heritage, without rights to land, work or even a place to live; refugees in what was supposed to be their own country. In 1999, a small group of ‡Khomani San succeeded in winning a land claim, as a result of which many were deemed to have rights to land and places to live in new security.

 

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For the San living within South Africa, the apartheid regime meant a final eviction from their last remaining lands. Denied the right even to speak their own languages, the ‡Khomani became a diaspora of people, fighting for their heritage, without rights to land, work or even a place to live; refugees in what was supposed to be their own country. In 1999, a small group of ‡Khomani San succeeded in winning a land claim, as a result of which many were deemed to have rights to land and places to live in new security.

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Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland (RAI) since 1985, it is an itinerant festival that moves biennially from one university host to another, in association with local community and cultural organisations.

The festival will be held from Thursday 13 June to Sunday 16 June 2013 in Edinburgh, hosted by National Museums Scotland and the STAR consortium. Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) is a collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and St. Andrews. Over 60 new films will be screened alongside a conference 'New Observations' and a selection of special events and workshop about art & anthropology and the use of archival film.

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