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Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

By: Megan Biesele

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Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time. The treasure trove of vivid learning experiences and nightly ponderings she found has led to a memoir of rare value to anthropology students and academics as well as to general readers. Her experiences focus on the long-lived healing dance, known to many as the trance dance, and the intricate beliefs, artistry, and social system that support it. She describes her immersion in a creative community enlivened and kept healthy by that dance, which she calls "one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind." From the Preface: A few years ago I finally got around to looking back into the box of personal field journals I had not opened for over forty years. I found a treasure trove. It was an overwhelming experience. So much that I had forgotten came vividly alive: I laughed, wept, and was terrified all over again at my temerity in taking on what I had taken on. To do justice to the richness of these notebooks, I realized, I would have to do a completely different sort of writing from anything I had ever done before.

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Once Upon a Time Is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

By: Megan Biesele

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The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

By: Megan Biesele,Robert K. Hitchcock

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The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

By: Megan Biesele,Robert K. Hitchcock

The Ju/’hoan San, or Ju/’hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this group in the writings of Richard Lee, Lorna Marshall, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and films by John Marshall includes extensive information on their traditional ways of life, this book continues the story as it has unfolded since 1990. Peopled with accounts of and from contemporary Ju>/’hoan people, the book gives newly-literate Ju/’hoansi the chance to address the world with their own voices. In doing so, the images and myths of the Ju/’hoan and other San (previously called “Bushmen”) as either noble savages or helpless victims are discredited. This important book demonstrates the responsiveness of current anthropological advocacy to the aspirations of one of the best-known indigenous societies.

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Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy

Spirituality and Cultural Transformation Among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi

By: Richard Katz,Megan Biesele,Verna St. Denis

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Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy

Spirituality and Cultural Transformation Among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi

By: Richard Katz,Megan Biesele,Verna St. Denis

Description and analysis of indigenous methods of healing in the context of a new political economy, new health and education system. The book is written in a readable style, contains fascinating photographs as well as sensitive and reflective texts by the authors on their research work which makes it an exceptional book. Appendices include "Writing the Juu'hoan language: some political considerations" and "Concrete challenges for development workers" (BAB).

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

By: Megan Biesele,Robert K. Hitchcock

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Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

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Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy

Spirituality and Cultural Transformation Among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi

By: Richard Katz,Megan Biesele,Verna St. Denis

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Spirituality and Cultural Transformation Among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi

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