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!Kung Pitek, Emily

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This entry focuses on one of the most widely known sub groups of the San-speaking people, the !Kung (self-referred to as (“Zhu|õasi”), specifically of the Nyae Nyae region, Namibia ca. 1950. The !Kung live in autonomous bands, which are comprised of a group of families residing together and “linked to one another and to the headman by kinship bonds” (Marshall, 1965:267). The headman is chiefly responsible for the band’s movements and regulation of the consumption of resources. While the !Kung are traditionally described as hunter-gatherers, they now also practice agriculture. There are no religious specialists among other than diviners and medicine men, who would be more accurately be characterized as ritual specialists or curers. The !Kung religious beliefs center around a greater and lesser god, spirits of the deceased, as well as occasional ceremonies. The religious group is best characterized as coterminous with the society itself.

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Title
!Kung
Creator
Pitek, Emily
Contributor
Database of Religious History (DRH)
Publisher
Database of Religious History (DRH)
Date Issued
2018-09-21
Description
This entry focuses on one of the most widely known sub groups of the San-speaking people, the !Kung (self-referred to as (“Zhu|õasi”), specifically of the Nyae Nyae region, Namibia ca. 1950. The !Kung live in autonomous bands, which are comprised of a group of families residing together and “linked to one another and to the headman by kinship bonds” (Marshall, 1965:267). The headman is chiefly responsible for the band’s movements and regulation of the consumption of resources. While the !Kung are traditionally described as hunter-gatherers, they now also practice agriculture. There are no religious specialists among other than diviners and medicine men, who would be more accurately be characterized as ritual specialists or curers. The !Kung religious beliefs center around a greater and lesser god, spirits of the deceased, as well as occasional ceremonies. The religious group is best characterized as coterminous with the society itself.
Subject
Religion; African Religions
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2018-12-11
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0375668
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/68013
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Other
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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