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ǃKung people

Index 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. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 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) »

  2. Ethnic groups in Angola
  3. Ethnic groups in Botswana
  4. Ethnic groups in Namibia
  5. Hunter-gatherers of Africa
  6. Indigenous peoples of Southern Africa
  7. 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.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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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.

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Band society

A band society, sometimes called a camp, or in older usage, a horde, is the simplest form of human society.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Laying on of hands

The laying on of hands is a religious practice.

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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.

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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.

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Menarche

Menarche is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding, in female humans.

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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.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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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.

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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.

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Placenta

The placenta (placentas or placentae) is a temporary embryonic and later fetal organ that begins developing from the blastocyst shortly after implantation.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Unassisted childbirth

Unassisted childbirth (UC) refers to the process of intentionally giving birth without the assistance of a medical birth attendant.

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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

Ethnic groups in Botswana

Ethnic groups in Namibia

Hunter-gatherers of Africa

Indigenous peoples of Southern Africa

San people

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ǃKung_people

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.

, Southern Africa, The Demon-Haunted World, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Traditional African medicine, Umbilical cord, Unassisted childbirth, White Africans of European ancestry.