| Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites Contributor(s): Marshall, Lorna J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873659082 ISBN-13: 9780873659086 Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2000 Annotation: 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 this interaction accounts for much of the mystery of life and the vicissitudes of the good and evil that befall mankind. The book also depicts an egalitarian lifestyle based on sharing and group awareness, a lifestyle that has not survived intact the increasing integration of the Bushmen into the modern world. A companion volume to her 1976 work, "The !Kung of Nyae Nyae," this book is published to mark the recent one-hundredth birthday of Lorna Marshall. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Ethnic & Tribal |
| Dewey: 299.681 |
| LCCN: 99074169 |
| Series: Peabody Museum Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.58" W x 9.16" (1.69 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 this interaction accounts for much of the mystery of life and the vicissitudes of the good and evil that befall mankind. The book also depicts an egalitarian lifestyle based on sharing and group awareness, a lifestyle that has not survived intact the increasing integration of the Bushmen into the modern world. A companion volume to her 1976 work, The Kung of Nyae Nyae, this book is published to mark the recent one-hundredth birthday of Lorna Marshall. |