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The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert

The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert

Isaacson, Rupert

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African HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0802140513
ISBN13: 9780802140517
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Feb 24 2004
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland -- which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia -- to find out the truth behind these childhood stories.

Deep in the Kalahari, Isaacson meets the last groups of Bushmen still living the traditional way, caught between their ancient culture and the growing need to protect and reclaim their dwindling hunting grounds. Little by little he is drawn into the fascinating web of ritual and prophecy that make up the Bushman reality. He hears of shamans who turn into lions, sees leopards conjured from the landscape as though by magic. He attends trance-inducing dances and witnesses incredible healings. But he also sees the heart-wrenching social problems of a dispossessed people. What follows is an adventure of an intensity he could never have predicted.

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