Counterpoint Botswana /

Counterpoint Botswana /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:London : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (45 min.).
Language:English
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 1
Forum follies
Subject:
Documentary films -- Botswana.
Pentecostal churches -- Botswana -- Gaborone.
Healers -- Botswana.
Traditional medicine -- Botswana.
Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Spiritual healing -- Botswana.
Healers.
Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Pentecostal churches.
Spiritual healing.
Traditional medicine.
Botswana.
Botswana -- Gaborone.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Format: Video E-Resource Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10315500
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Werbner, Richard P.
Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014).
Previously released as DVD.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 1). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition in English.
Summary:Seeing Holy Hustler, the 2009 film made in Botswana, local viewers respond and discuss it with the filmmaker Richard Werbner in 2011. Counterpoint Botswana captures the reception by home audience. Widely shared are moments evoking laughter, shock and remarkably intense, thoughtful reflection. Holy Hustlers is moving, local viewers agree. But while welcoming that - it is seen to be a documentary that appeals to people in Botswana - they disagree, when asked about the reasons for their responses; and they argue about characters, scenes and the very nature of representation in Holy Hustlers. The screenings elicit contradictory interpretations. These are expressed by some subjects of the film, by University of Botswana staff, students and the invited public, and by activists of two youth organisations, YOHO (Youth Health Organisation) and YIAS (Youth in Action Society).
Other form:Original

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