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Tricksters & Trancers: Bushman Religion and Society. Indiana: Indiana University Press. Hastings, James (2003). Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Part 2. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 0-7661-3670-1. Heinz, H-J. 1975. Elements of ǃKo Bushmen religious beliefs. Anthropos 70:17–41. Hewitt, R.L. (1986). Narratives of the Southern San. Quellen zur ...
San Spirituality: Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences. Rowman Altamira. ISBN 0-7591-0432-8. Solomon, Anne; Anne Lewis (1998). The Essential Guide to San Rock Art. New Africa Books. ISBN 0-86486-430-2. Stookey, Lorena Laura (2004). Thematic guide to world mythology. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-31505-1
The first section of the book concerns a San community's journey set roughly in 13,000 BC. In Wilbur Smith's novel The Burning Shore (an instalment in the Courtneys of Africa book series), the San people are portrayed through two major characters, O'wa and H'ani; Smith describes the San's struggles, history, and beliefs in great detail.
Carl Sagan draws on the ǃKung's way of life in relation to science in his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World. He also referred to them in his 1994 lecture "The Age of Exploration", based primarily on anthropologist Richard Borshay Lee's 1979 field study of the ǃKung San in the Botswanan part of the Kalahari Desert. [19]: 8:41–14:49
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While the word religion is difficult to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as [a] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations ...
Detail of a San rock painting in the Drakensberg. The San, or Bushmen, are indigenous people in Southern Africa particularly in what is now South Africa and Botswana. Their ancient rock paintings and carvings (collectively called rock art) are found in caves and on rock shelters. The artwork depicts non-human beings, hunters, and half-human ...
In the culture of the San (various groups of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Angola), healers administer a wide range of practices, from oral remedies containing plant and animal material, making cuts on the body and rubbing in 'potent' substances, inhaling smoke of smoldering organic matter like certain twigs or animal dung, wearing parts of ...