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The San have no collective word for themselves in their own languages. "San" comes from a derogatory Khoekhoe word used to refer to foragers without cattle or other wealth, from a root saa "picking up from the ground" + plural -n in the Haiǁom dialect. [8] [9] "Bushmen" is the older cover term, but "San" was widely adopted in the West by the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wandering hunters (Basarwa Bushmen), North Kalahari desert, c. 1892, from a photograph by Henry Anderson Bryden. The San people (or Basarwa [1], formerly known as "Bushmen" [2]), are one of the oldest cultures on Earth; they have lived in the area around the Kalahari Desert much longer than neighboring tribal groups. [2]
The ǃKung (/ ˈ k ʊ ŋ / [1] [a] KUUNG) are one of the San peoples who live mostly on the western edge of the Kalahari desert, Ovamboland (northern Namibia and southern Angola), and Botswana. [2] The names ǃKung ( ǃXun ) and Ju are variant words for 'people', preferred by different ǃKung groups.
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 ...
The San "Bushmen" Edwin Wilmsen's 1989 book Land Filled With Flies kicked off the Kalahari Debate. [citation needed] Wilmsen made several remarks attacking anthropologists’ view of the San people. Most of his attacks were at Richard Lee and his work.
The Bushmen, or San, have inhabited the lands for thousands of years since they roamed the area as nomadic hunters. [2] However, since the mid-1990s the Botswana government has tried to relocate the Bushmen from the reserve, claiming they were a drain on financial resources despite revenues from tourism.