cover image: Healing dance demonstration at the Kalahari Cultural Week

Healing dance demonstration at the Kalahari Cultural Week

05-2005

During the 2005 Cultural Week in the Kalahari, San community members from Botswana and South Africa were invited to make crafts and demonstrate tracking, hunting and other activities. Here, San people, demonstrate the healing dance know as |qû. The elders are dressed in pants and shirts dancing with the ǂKhomani dance group. The dance is intended to assist in the healing of sick individuals. Traditionally men would dance while the women and children would sing and clap. The men occasionally go into a trance and enter the spirit world where the ancestors would guide them in the healing.
san (african people)--social life and customs khomani (african people)--social life and customs khomani (african people)--botswana and south africa--kgalagadi transfrontier par san (african people)--botswana and south africa--kgalagadi transfrontier park indigenous peoples--land tenure--africa, southern khomani (african people)--rites and ceremonies san (african people)--rites and ceremonies
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Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa)
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South Africa
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Photographs