Table of Contents
57 relations: Adansonia, Altered state of consciousness, Alveolar click, Angola, Animatism, Animism, Band society, Botswana, Bride price, Carl Sagan, Childbirth, Click consonant, Creator deity, Culture hero, ǃKung languages, ǃKung people, ǃXu (god), Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Gossip Girl, Grand Central Publishing, Infanticide, Ivy Dickens, Juǀʼhoan language, Kalahari Debate, Kalahari Desert, Khoisan languages, Kxʼa languages, Laying on of hands, Lorna Marshall, Lotus birth, Marjorie Shostak, Marshall Sahlins, Matrilocal residence, Menarche, Millet, Namibia, Nature reserve, Nǃxau ǂToma, New York City, Original affluent society, Ovamboland, Phish, Placenta, Platfontein, Protagonist, Regality theory, Richard Borshay Lee, Royal ǀUiǀoǀoo, Sebastian Junger, Shamanism, ... Expand index (7 more) »
- Ethnic groups in Angola
- Ethnic groups in Botswana
- Ethnic groups in Namibia
- Hunter-gatherers of Africa
- Indigenous peoples of Southern Africa
- San people
Adansonia
Adansonia is a genus made up of eight species of medium-to-large deciduous trees known as baobabs or adansonias.
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Altered state of consciousness
An altered state of consciousness (ASC), also called an altered state of mind, altered mental status (AMS) or mind alteration, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking state.
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Alveolar click
The alveolar or postalveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.
See ǃKung people and Alveolar click
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
Animatism
Animatism is a term coined by British anthropologist Robert Marett in the context of his teleological theory of the evolution of religion.
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Animism
Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
Band society
A band society, sometimes called a camp, or in older usage, a horde, is the simplest form of human society.
See ǃKung people and Band society
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Bride price
Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.
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Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section.
See ǃKung people and Childbirth
Click consonant
Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa.
See ǃKung people and Click consonant
Creator deity
A creator deity or creator god is a deity responsible for the creation of the Earth, world, and universe in human religion and mythology.
See ǃKung people and Creator deity
Culture hero
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.
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ǃKung languages
ǃKung (ǃXun), also known as Ju, is a dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three languages.
See ǃKung people and ǃKung languages
ǃKung people
The ǃKung 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. ǃKung people and ǃKung people are Coloureds, ethnic groups in Angola, ethnic groups in Botswana, ethnic groups in Namibia, hunter-gatherers of Africa, indigenous peoples of Southern Africa and san people.
See ǃKung people and ǃKung people
ǃXu (god)
ǃXu, also ǃXu꞉ba and sometimes ǃXo or ǃXo꞉ba, is a San rendering of the Khoikhoi word ǃKhu 'rich' and its derivation ǃKhub 'rich man, master', which was used by some Christian missionaries to the Khoikhoi to translate the word "Lord" in the Bible.
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (born September 13, 1931) is an American author.
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Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar.
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Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Kinney National Company acquired the Paperback Library.
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Infanticide
Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring.
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Ivy Dickens
Ivy Dickens (former alias: Charlotte "Charlie" Rhodes) is a fictional character who exclusively appears in the ''Gossip Girl'' television adaptation, portrayed by Kaylee DeFer.
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Juǀʼhoan language
Juǀʼhoan, 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.
See ǃKung people and Juǀʼhoan language
Kalahari Debate
The Kalahari Debate is a series of back and forth arguments that began in the 1980s amongst anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians about how the San people and hunter-gatherer societies in southern Africa have lived in the past. ǃKung people and Kalahari Debate are hunter-gatherers of Africa and san people.
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Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
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Khoisan languages
The Khoisan languages (also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg.
See ǃKung people and Khoisan languages
Kxʼa languages
The Kxʼa languages, also called Ju–ǂHoan, is a language family established in 2010 linking the ǂʼAmkoe (ǂHoan) language with the ǃKung (Juu) dialect cluster, a relationship that had been suspected for a decade.
See ǃKung people and Kxʼa languages
Laying on of hands
The laying on of hands is a religious practice.
See ǃKung people and Laying on of hands
Lorna Marshall
Lorna Marshall (born Lorna Jean McLean; September 14, 1898 – July 8, 2002) was an anthropologist who in the 1950s, 60s and 70s lived among and wrote about the previously unstudied !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert.
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Lotus birth
Lotus birth (or umbilical cord nonseverance - UCNS) is the practice of leaving the umbilical cord uncut after childbirth so that the baby is left attached to the placenta until the cord naturally separates at the umbilicus.
See ǃKung people and Lotus birth
Marjorie Shostak
Marjorie Shostak (May 11, 1945 – October 6, 1996) was an American anthropologist.
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Marshall Sahlins
Marshall David Sahlins (December 27, 1930April 5, 2021) was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory.
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Matrilocal residence
In social anthropology, matrilocal residence or matrilocality (also uxorilocal residence or uxorilocality) is the societal system in which a married couple resides with or near the wife's parents.
See ǃKung people and Matrilocal residence
Menarche
Menarche is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding, in female humans.
Millet
Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
Nature reserve
A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.
See ǃKung people and Nature reserve
Nǃxau ǂToma
Nǃxau ǂToma (short: Nǃxau, alternative spelling Gcao Tekene Çoma; 16 December 1944 – 5 July 2003) was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who starred in the 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels, in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo. ǃKung people and Nǃxau ǂToma are san people.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Original affluent society
The "original affluent society" is the proposition that argues that the lives of hunter-gatherers can be seen as embedding a sufficient degree of material comfort and security to be considered affluent.
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Ovamboland
Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia).
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Phish
Phish is an American rock band formed in Burlington, Vermont, in 1983.
Placenta
The placenta (placentas or placentae) is a temporary embryonic and later fetal organ that begins developing from the blastocyst shortly after implantation.
Platfontein
Platfontein is a community located in an arid region of the Northern Cape Province, 15 kilometers outside the city of Kimberley. ǃKung people and Platfontein are san people.
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Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a story.
See ǃKung people and Protagonist
Regality theory
The theory of regal and kungic societal structures, or regality theory, is a theory that seeks to explain certain cultural differences based on perceived collective danger and fear.
See ǃKung people and Regality theory
Richard Borshay Lee
Richard Borshay Lee (born 1937) is a Canadian anthropologist.
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Royal ǀUiǀoǀoo
Royal Johan Kxao ǀUiǀoǀoo (born 30 September 1966) is a Namibian politician who is serving in the cabinet of Namibia as deputy Minister of Marginalised People since March 2015. ǃKung people and Royal ǀUiǀoǀoo are san people.
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Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of infantry combat. He is the author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) which was adapted into a major motion picture and led to a resurgence in adventure creative nonfiction writing.
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.
See ǃKung people and Southern Africa
The Demon-Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan.
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Jamie Uys.
See ǃKung people and The Gods Must Be Crazy
Traditional African medicine
Traditional African medicine is a range of traditional medicine disciplines involving indigenous herbalism and African spirituality, typically including diviners, midwives, and herbalists.
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Umbilical cord
In placental mammals, the umbilical cord (also called the navel string, birth cord or funiculus umbilicalis) is a conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta.
See ǃKung people and Umbilical cord
Unassisted childbirth
Unassisted childbirth (UC) refers to the process of intentionally giving birth without the assistance of a medical birth attendant.
See ǃKung people and Unassisted childbirth
White Africans of European ancestry
White Africans of European ancestry refers to citizens or residents in Africa who can trace full or partial ancestry to Europe.
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See also
Ethnic groups in Angola
- Ambundu
- Brazilians in Angola
- Cape Verdean Angolan
- Chinese people in Angola
- Chokwe
- Chokwe people
- Dondo people
- Ganguela
- German Angolans
- Herero people
- Himba people
- Kongo
- Kongo people
- List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia
- Lozi people
- Lunda people
- Luvale people
- Mbadja people
- Mbunda people
- Mucubal people
- Ovambo
- Ovambo people
- Ovimbundu
- Portuguese Angolans
- Romani people in Portugal
- Rulers of Mbundaland
- San people
- Sundi
- Twa
- Vili people
- White Angolans
- Xindonga
- Yaka people
- Yombe people
- Zemba
- ǃKung people
Ethnic groups in Botswana
- Ancestral land conflict in Botswana
- Baka-Nswazwi
- Bangwaketse
- Barokologadi Ba Ga Maotwa
- Batalaunda
- Chinese people in Botswana
- Ethnic groups in Botswana
- Herero people
- Indians in Botswana
- Kalanga
- Kgalagadi people
- Kololo people
- Lozi people
- Mbanderu people
- Mbukushu
- Nama people
- Ngwato tribe
- San people
- Sotho
- Subia people
- Subiya
- Talaote tribe
- Tlôkwa people
- Tswana
- Twa
- White people in Botswana
- Yeyi
- Yeyi people
- Zimbabweans in Botswana
- ǃKung people
Ethnic groups in Namibia
- Afrikaners
- Angolans in Namibia
- Basters
- Bondelswarts
- British diaspora in Africa
- Chinese people in Namibia
- Chokwe people
- Coloured people in Namibia
- Coloureds
- Damara people
- GDR Children of Namibia
- German Namibians
- German colonization of Africa
- Himba people
- Kavango people
- Khoekhoe
- Kwisi people
- List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia
- Lozi people
- Mbadja people
- Mbanderu people
- Mbukushu
- Mbunda people
- Nama people
- Oorlam people
- Ovambo
- Ovambo people
- Red Nation (Namibia)
- San people
- Sesfontein Damara
- Sotho
- Strandloper peoples
- Subia people
- Subiya
- Tjimba people
- Topnaar people
- Traditional leadership of Namibia
- Twa
- White Namibians
- Yeyi people
- Zemba
- ǂAakhoe dialect
- ǃKung people
Hunter-gatherers of Africa
- African Pygmies
- Akie people
- Ancestral land conflict in Botswana
- Capsian culture
- Degere
- Dorobo
- Hadza people
- Kalahari Debate
- Kwisi people
- Okiek people
- San people
- Strandloper peoples
- Tjimba people
- Vadoma
- Waata
- ǃKung people
Indigenous peoples of Southern Africa
- Ancestral land conflict in Botswana
- Bantu peoples
- Bantu peoples of South Africa
- Customary law in South Africa
- Khoekhoe
- Khoisan
- Mobile Military Health Formation
- Native Namibians
- San people
- Shona people
- Strandloper peoples
- Vazimba
- Zemba
- ǀXam and ǂKhomani heartland
- ǂKhomani people
- ǃKung people
San people
- Affluence Without Abundance
- Ancestral land conflict in Botswana
- Bushmanland (South West Africa)
- Cgʼose Ntcoxʼo
- Coexʼae Qgam
- Dawid Kruiper
- Elsie Vaalbooi
- First People of the Kalahari
- Kalahari Debate
- Negro of Banyoles
- Nǃxau ǂToma
- Platfontein
- Roy Sesana
- Royal ǀUiǀoǀoo
- San gods
- San healing practices
- San people
- San religion
- San rock art
- Strandloper peoples
- Tracking in Caves
- Una Rooi
- ǀXam and ǂKhomani heartland
- ǁKabbo
- ǂKhomani people
- ǃKung people
- ǃKweiten-ta-ǁKen
References
Also known as !Kung, !Kung San, !Kung San people, !Kung mythology, !Kung people, !Xu, !Xu mythology, !Xun, !Xun people, !Xũ mythology, Dzuǀ'oasi, Ju!'Hoasi, Ju'/hoansi, Ju/'hoansi, Ju/wasi, Juǀ'hoansi, Juǀ'hõasi, Juǀ’oansi, Kung San, Kung people, Zhuǀʼhõasi, ǃKung.