The Dobe Ju/'hoansi, Volume 10This classic, bestselling study of the Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes to Kung rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage and kinship system. It documents their determination to take hold of their own destiny-despite exploitation of their habitat and relentless development-to assert their political rights and revitalize their communities. Use of the name Ju/'hoansi (meaning "real people") acknowledges their new sense of empowerment. |
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Page 137
... bush . Tswanas , Gobas , Hereros , and Europeans like you , / Tontah , we call ! hohmsa chuo , wild things of the village . " This came as a great revelation to me . " What exactly are the ! hohm ? " " We call all creatures who are ...
... bush . Tswanas , Gobas , Hereros , and Europeans like you , / Tontah , we call ! hohmsa chuo , wild things of the village . " This came as a great revelation to me . " What exactly are the ! hohm ? " " We call all creatures who are ...
Page 141
... bush . They said that in the bush you can al- ways find food and game ; in the bush you are free to live as you please . An equal number of Ju , like young / Gau , expressed a fear and dislike of the bush . The bush is hunger , said one ...
... bush . They said that in the bush you can al- ways find food and game ; in the bush you are free to live as you please . An equal number of Ju , like young / Gau , expressed a fear and dislike of the bush . The bush is hunger , said one ...
Page 187
... bush camps , I raised the question with Hakekgose , a Tswana man who had grown up among the Ju , married a Ju girl , and who probably knew their culture better than any other non - Ju / ' hoan . " With us Whites , " I began ...
... bush camps , I raised the question with Hakekgose , a Tswana man who had grown up among the Ju , married a Ju girl , and who probably knew their culture better than any other non - Ju / ' hoan . " With us Whites , " I began ...
Contents
The Juhoansi | 1 |
The People of the Dobe Area | 8 |
Environment and Settlement | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Africa animal anthropology arrows asked Basarwa behavior Biesele Blacks Botswana brother bush Bushmen called cattle Chapter conflict culture Debe development anthropology diet Dobe area Dobe Ju/'hoansi ecology fight film foraging gangwasi Gausha Ghanzi girls goats Goshe headman healers healing dance herd Herero hunter hunter-gatherers hunting and gathering husband huts Hwan hxaro joking Ju/'hoan Ju/'hoansi Kalahari Kalahari Desert Kangwa kaross Kasupe kill kin terms kinship Kumsa kun!a Kung San land living Lorna Marshall Marjorie Shostak marriage married Maun meat mongongo mother N!ai N!eishi n!ore name relationship Namibia nuts Nyae Nyae area older parents percent relatives season Setswana sexual siblings sister social social anthropology society South African spear species spouses steenbok SWAPO swara Tjum!kui Toma Tontah trance truck Tswana village waterhole Wiessner wife Wilmsen woman women Xashe Yellen young