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Healing dance demonstration at the Kalahari Cultural Week

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Title
Healing dance demonstration at the Kalahari Cultural Week
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Subject
San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, Khomani (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern
Description
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.
Publisher
University of Cape Town. Libraries
Contributor
Chennells, Roger (contributor), Crawhall, N. T. (Nigel T.) (contributor), Brody, Hugh (contributor), Kemp, Bill (contributor), Blasevic, Valter (contributor), Chamberlin, J. Edward, 1943- (contributor), Comic Relief (Organization) (contributor), University of the Fraser Valley (contributor), Open Channels (contributor), South African San Institute (contributor)
Date
05-2005
Type
Format
Identifier
islandora:27152
Source
mss_bvf41_lam 04.jpg
Language
Relation
ǂKhomani San Hugh Brody Archive: Photographs
Coverage
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), 1997-2002
Rights
For copyright information and terms of usage, click here: http://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/brody-khomani-san-rights.html

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