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The ǃKung people of Southern Africa recognize a Supreme Being, ǃXu, who is the Creator and Upholder of life. [4] Like other African High Gods, he also punishes man by means of the weather, and the Otjimpolo-ǃKung know him as Erob, who "knows everything". [5]
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 ...
John Kennedy Marshall [1] (November 12, 1932 – April 22, 2005) was an American anthropologist and acclaimed documentary filmmaker best known for his work in Namibia recording the lives of the Juǀʼhoansi (also called the !Kung Bushmen).
Philippines: Albert Jenks Albert Bacdayan: 1905 1974 Boyowan: Australasia: Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea: Patrilocal Matrilineal Bronisław Malinowski: 1916 Bribri: North America: Costa Rica: Matrilocal Matrilineal William More Gabb: 1875 Bunt: Asia: India: Patrilocal Matrilineal E Kathleen Gough: 1954 Chamorro: Oceania: Guam and Mariana ...
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 ...
The Hunters is a 1957 ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian - Harvard Peabody sponsored expedition in 1952–53. [ 2 ]
The revisionists believe the !Kung San were heavily involved in trade. They believe the San were transformed by centuries of contact with Iron Age, Bantu -speaking agro-pastoralists. [ 2 ] This argues against the idea that they were a well-adapted hunter-gatherer culture, but instead advanced only through trade and help from nearby economies.
Juǀʼhoan (English: / ˈ dʒ uː t w æ n / JOO-twan, [2] [3] Juǀʼhoan: [ʒuᵑ̊ǀʰwã]), also known as Southern or Southeastern ǃKung or ǃXun, is the southern variety of the ǃKung dialect continuum, spoken in northeastern Namibia and the Northwest District of Botswana by San Bushmen who largely identify themselves as Juǀʼhoansi.