The Medicine Dance of the !Kung Bushmen

Africa ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
South West ◽  
The People ◽  
Prolonged Contact ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
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Made In

Opening ParagraphThe !Kung Bushmen whose medicine dance is described in this paper live in the interior of the Nyae Nyae region in South West Africa. The observations were made in the years 1951–61, in the course of five expeditions. The bands with which expedition members had the closest and most prolonged contact were those that the author numbered 1-7, 9, 10, and 12 on the map (Fig. 1). The present study is concerned principally with the people in those bands, who numbered, in all, 225 persons. The information gathered from informants was obtained for the most part in 1952–3, when twelve consecutive months were spent in the Nyae Nyae region.

Sheep and Sheep-Herders in South Africa

Africa ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Willcox
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Hair Sheep ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
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Opening ParagraphIn a recent paper Mr. C. K. Cooke, F.S.A., discusses the questions of the introduction of sheep into Africa and their arrival in southern Africa (Cooke, 1965).Mr Cooke quotes Zeuner's conclusion (Zeuner, 1963) ‘that the first sheep in Africa were screw-horned hair sheep from Turkestan or Persia which reached lower Egypt about 5000 B.C. and Khartoum by 3300 B.C. This breed disappeared with the Middle Kingdom when it was replaced by a wool sheep and the fat-tailed sheep reached Africa only from the Roman period.’ Zeuner further asserts thatOne breed of sheep descended from the Egyptian hair-sheep had reached South-West Africa before the arrival of the Europeans. In these animals the profile is convex, the eyes are placed high on the skull and close to the drooping ears. The rams carry thick horns and a long ruff on the throat.

N!ow

Africa ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Kalahari Desert ◽  
South West ◽  
Run Off ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
Edible Roots ◽  
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Covering Vegetation

Opening ParagraphN!ow is a belief concerning rain and cold which is held by the !Kung Bushmen in the region around Nyae Nyae in South West Africa.About ten inches of rain falls in an average year in this part of the Kalahari Desert and sinks into the deep sands. There is no run-off in streams and there are few water holes. The rain is sufficient to support a covering vegetation of grass, shrubs, and scrubby trees. The vegetation includes numerous edible roots, tubers, leaves, fruits, and nuts, for which the Afrikaans language provides the convenient word veldkos.

Vernacular Text-Books in South African Native Schools

Africa ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clement M. Doke
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
East Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
South West ◽  
Northern Sotho ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
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Opening ParagraphIn this survey of vernacular text-books I am confining my attention to the Union of South Africa and the three High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland. In this area we have five important literary language forms in use, viz. Xhosa and Zulu (belonging to the Nguni cluster of Bantu), and Southern Sotho, Tšwana, and Northern Sotho (belonging to the Sotho cluster). Reference will be made to two other languages spoken in the northern and eastern Transvaal, Venda and Tonga (commonly written as Thonga, and belonging to the cluster of languages spoken in Portuguese East Africa from Delagoa Bay northwards). I do not intend to deal with the languages spoken in the Mandated Territory of South-west Africa, nor with such intrusions as that of Kalanga into the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

!Kung Bushman Religious Beliefs

Africa ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
South West ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
The Dead ◽  
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Medicine Men

Opening ParagraphMy purpose in this paper is to describe some of the religious beliefs held currently by the !Kung Bushmen of the interior bands of the Nyae Nyae region of South West Africa. I shall limit the paper to a description of their concepts of the gods, the problem of evil, supplication, the spirits of the dead, and the ceremonial curing dance, but leave for another paper a more detailed account of medicine men, how they become medicine men, and more about their practices and beliefs. We gathered the information which I present principally on our expeditions of 1952–3 and 1955.

Marriage among !Kung Bushmen

Africa ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
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Opening ParagraphBecause within the area we indicate by shading on the map the !Kung Bushmen intermarry among themselves, by custom and preference, members of the Harvard Peabody Smithsonian Kalahari Expeditions needed a convenient way of referring to that area as a unit and arbitrarily called it the region of Nyae Nyae.Nyae Nyae is a corruption of the !Kung name //Nua!ei. The name Nyae Nyae refers strictly to a group of pans in South West Africa (S.W.A.) centred approximately at Gautscha Pan at about 19° 48′ 30″ S, 20° 34′ 36″ E. We extend the application of the name to an area around the pans of about 10,000 square miles, lying for the most part in S.W.A. but reaching some miles over the border of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (B.P.). There are no strictly conceived boundaries around the area. We can only vaguely define it by saying that it does not include Karakuwise to the west or Chadum to the north. It does not, we think, reach eastward much farther than Kai Kai, or southward much beyond Blaubush Pan (40 or 50 miles south of Gam).

scholarly journals IX. Further observations on welwitschia

1909 ◽  
Vol 200 (262-273) ◽  
pp. 331-402 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
British Association ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Made In

By the courtesy of His Excellency Herr von Lindequist and the Government of German South-West Africa, a second expedition to Damaraland was made in the summer of 1906-7. Welwitschia was found in flower at Welwitsch and in the neighbourhood of Haikamchab. The material which is the subject of this investigation was collected in these localities in January and February, 1907. The cost of the journey was defrayed by a grant from the British Association.

Literary reconstructions of the 1904-1908 Herero Nama conflict in Namibia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-31
Author(s):  
Coletta M. Kandemiri ◽  
Nelson Mlambo ◽  
Juliet S. Pasi
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
South West ◽  
The People ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
South West Africa

At the beginning of the 20th century (1904-1908), a genocide took place where Herero and Nama people of the then German South West Africa (present day Namibia) were nearly completely decimated by German soldiers. Through the selected factional novels, Parts Unknown (2018) by Zirk Van Den Burg, The Lie of the Land (2017) David Jasper Utley, The Weeping Graves of Our Ancestors (2017) by Rukee Tjingaete, The Scattering (2016) by Lauri Kubuitsile, and Mama Namibia (2013) by Mari Serebrov, this article explores the literary reconstruction of this Herero Nama conflict of 1904 to 1908 with German as the aggressor. The paper considers the pragmatic disposition of the Herero Nama conflict with the Germans as presented from a fictional perspective (faction) and how it is relevant to the reconstruction of the Herero Nama history. Additionally, there are various art forms that specify new modes of expression for the reconstruction of the same historical event and this paper pays attention to some of these forms as presented in the selected texts. Through the analysis, it was found that the selected historical novels recreate the same event but from different angles yet several incidents emerging in the novels relate to the historical reality that is now reenacted through art. Through the analysis of the historical novels, the researchers also found that there seems to be a thin line between the imaginative literary works and the historical events that took place. Lastly, the selected novels demonstrate literature’s immediacy to recreate some critical arguments that are still unsolved even in present day Namibia about the general welfare of the people with the problems that are still linked to the nation’s history.

Secretariat

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 595-601 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
Made In

In his Introduction to the Annual Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization, 16 June 1966–15 June 1967 Secretary-General U Thant observed that during the period under review the international political situation had deteriorated considerably. The war in Vietnam had progressively intensified, there had been renewed warfare in the Middle East in June 1967, and the situation in Cyprus had not improved. Only limited progress had been made in such areas as disarmament, outer space, economic and social development, decolonization, and human rights. Frustrations in respect of South Africa, South West Africa, and Rhodesia continued, although in the cases of South West Africa and Rhodesia the General Assembly and the Security Council, respectively, had taken certain steps which might help in time to improve the situation

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