Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites

Name: Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
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ISBN: 9780873659086

ISBN-10: 0873659082

ISBN-13: 9780873659086

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lorna J. Marshall

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With style and depth, Lorna Marshall leads the reader through the intricacies, ambiguities, and silences of !Kung beliefs. Her narrative, based on fieldwork among the Bushmen of the Kalahari in the early 1950s, brings into focus a way of life that appears to have existed for millennia. She presents the culture, beliefs, and spirituality of one of the last true hunting-and-gathering peoples by focusing on members of different bands as they reveal their own views. This account, with photography by John Marshall, presents a system of beliefs, one in which personified deities and unpersonifled supernatural forces (n!ow and n/um) interact with man and the natural world. The !Kung believe that…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, Publications Department
Publication date: 1/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Notes on the Text


Introduction: Elements of the Supernatural



Religious Beliefs



The Gods


The Creation


The Names of the Gods Gao N!a, the Great God //Gauwa, the Lesser God


The //Gauwasi


The Interrelationship of the Gods with Each Other and with Man



Rites for the Protection of Life and Health



Concepts of Sickness and Healing Concepts of Sickness


The Healers Healing



The Ritual Healing Dance Dance Groups and Occasions


The Men's Dancing


The Women's Dancing


The N/um Songs


The Music


The Dance and the Healers



Food Avoidance and the Tshoa Rite Food


Avoidance Creatures Eschewed as Food


Individuals' Voluntary Abstention from Certain Foods


Specific Food Avoidances


The Tshoa Rite



Concepts of Childbirth and Rites For the Protection of Children


Concepts of Pregnancy Food Avoidance


Observed by Pregnant Women Childbirth


Avoidances after Childbirth


Protection of the Child



Rites for Subsistence



Hunting Rites Aspects of the Hunt


The Meat Fire "Let the Sun Be Blind"


The Rite of First Kill


The Blood Rite Food


Avoidances Related to Hunting



Rain Rites and N!ow Concepts about Rain N!ow



Rites of Passage



Death and Burial Death Burial Abandonment


Avoidance of Names of the Dead Mourning Possessions of the Dead



The Menarcheal Rite A Girl's First Menstruation


The Avoidances


The Eland Songs and the Eland Dance


The Tshoa Rite



Tshoma Aspects of Tshoma


The Tskxai !Go (The Men's Dance)


The Avoidances


The End of Tshoma and the Tshoa Rite



Sorcery and Other Mystiques



Sorcery


The Substances that Have Magic


The Inner Force


The Magic Bow



Millipedes, the Mantis Religiosa, and the Supernatural Peoples Millipedes


The Mantis Religiosa The


Supernatural Peoples



Star Lore



Star Lore


The Sun


The Moon


The Milky Way


The Stars


Epilogue


Afterword: Change Put in Perspective


Appendix: Band Charts


Notes


Bibliography


Index