Nyae Nyae Farmers' Cooperative Meeting

Object Details

Collection Collaborator: McElwee, Ross; Blitz, Daniel; Bishop, John Melville; Baker, Peter; Ritchie, Claire; Young, Robert; Terry, John; Galvin, Frank; Bestall, Clifford; Gardner, Robert; Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
Collection Creator: Marshall, John, 1932-2005
Collection Collaborator: Marshall, Lorna

See more items in: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection; John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 3: Unpublished Films And Videos / 3.2: Edited or Assembled

Sponsor: Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

Collection Citation: The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: A sequence edited from video footage shot in July 1994 of a meeting of the representative council (RADA) of the Nyae Nyae Farmer's Cooperative. It was during this meeting that the RADA members voted to dismiss the Director of the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia (NNDFN), Axel Thoma, and the NNDFN's Nyae Nyae-based program coordinator, Mark Spoelstra. A voice-over including English translations of Ju/'hoan and Afrikaans is provided by cameraman Peter Baker.

Collection Restrictions: The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played. Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.