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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. [6] It entered wider usage from the 1960s based on the proposal of a "Khoisan" language family by Joseph Greenberg.
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".
The San religion is the traditional religion and mythology of the San people. It is poorly attested due to their interactions with Christianity. It is poorly attested due to their interactions with Christianity.
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 accepted term for the two people being Khoisan. [2] The designation "Khoekhoe" is actually a kare or praise address, not an ethnic endonym, but it has been used in the literature as an ethnic term for Khoe-speaking peoples of Southern Africa, particularly pastoralist groups, such as the Griqua, Gona, Nama, Khoemana and Damara nations.
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
However, Hottentot also continued to be used through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in a wider sense, to include all of the people now usually referred to with the modern term Khoisan (not only the Khoikhoi, but also the San people, hunter-gatherer populations from the interior of southern Africa who had not been known to ...
The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa: Bushmen and Hottentots. Routledge & Kegan Paul. Routledge & Kegan Paul. This article relating to an African myth or legend is a stub .