San Spirituality Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences

Name: San Spirituality Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences
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ISBN: 9780759104327

ISBN-10: 0759104328

ISBN-13: 9780759104327

Edition: 2004

Authors: David J. Lewis-Williams, D. G. Pearce, D. G. Pearce

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At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many characterizations-from pre-human animals by the early European colonials, to aboriginal conservationists in perfect harmony with nature by recent New Age adherents. Neither caricature does justice to the complex world view of the San. Eminent anthropologists David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce present a instead balanced view of the spiritual life of this much-studied people, examining the interplay of their cosmology, myth, ritual, and art.

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 8/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.88" wide x 8.90" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword



A note on the orthography


A note on san ethnography



Mind, stone, spirit



Roots in the brain : a neurological interlude



Cosmology, graves, and transition



Kalahari life : a photographic background



Metaphors of transition



Punctuated normality



Controlling rain



Transformations in reticulations



Spirituality in society



Gotterdammerung



San spirituality today