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The compound term Khoisan / Khoesān is a modern anthropological convention in use since the early-to-mid 20th century. Khoisan is a coinage by Leonhard Schulze in the 1920s and popularised by Isaac Schapera. [5] It entered wider usage from the 1960s based on the proposal of a "Khoisan" language family by Joseph Greenberg.
Reality and Non-reality in San Rock Art (PDF). Raymond Dart Lectures (lecture 25). Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. ISBN 1-86814-024-5. ISSN 0079-9815. World Digital Library presentation of 3008 Rock Painting S00568, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. University of Pretoria
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Khoikhoi mythology (1 P) Khoisan languages (3 C, 7 P) N. Nama people (1 C, 34 P)
Sigrid Schmidt created a whole system of classification for Khoisan folktales. Tale type 707, in this system, was numbered KH 1125 and named "The mother of the boy(s) with a moon on his chest or forehead was banished but finally she was allowed back".
Map of modern distribution of "Khoisan" languages. The territories shaded blue and green, and those to their east, are those of San peoples. The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. [2]
The religious mythology of the Khoe-speaking cultures gives special significance to the Moon, which may have been viewed as the physical manifestation of a supreme being associated with heaven. Thiǁoab (Tsui'goab) is also believed to be the creator and the guardian of health, while ǁGaunab is primarily an evil being, who causes sickness or ...
Khoisan is a catch-all term for the "non-Bantu" indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Khoisan may also refer to: Khoisan mythology; Khoisan languages, a group of distinct African languages that use click consonants and do not belong to other African language families; Khoisan X (Benny Alexander; 1955–2010), South African political activist
Bantu mythology (Central, Southeast, Southern Africa) Lozi mythology (Zambia) Tumbuka mythology (Malawi) Zulu traditional religion (South Africa) Badimo (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho) San religion (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa) Traditional healers of South Africa; Indigenous religion in Zimbabwe