Lorna Marshall’s scientific contributions

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!Kung Bushman Religious Beliefs
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July 1962

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Africa

Lorna Marshall

Opening Paragraph My purpose in this paper is to describe some of the religious beliefs held currently by the !Kung Bushmen of the interior bands of the Nyae Nyae region of South West Africa. I shall limit the paper to a description of their concepts of the gods, the problem of evil, supplication, the spirits of the dead, and the ceremonial curing dance, but leave for another paper a more detailed account of medicine men, how they become medicine men, and more about their practices and beliefs. We gathered the information which I present principally on our expeditions of 1952–3 and 1955.

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... As documented by numerous Kalahari ethnographers, the San's primary healing ceremony takes place around a specially made 'trance fire'. Encircling the fire are a ring of seated women, whose clapping and singing of 'n|um songs' accompanies the rhythmic swooshing of the men's ankle rattles as they dance in outer ring around them, the ensemble creating an atmosphere conducive to trance through the accrual of n|um (Marshall, 1962(Marshall, , 1969Katz, 1982). ...

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Boiling Energy: Socioecological and Spiritual Dimensions of Pottery Emergence in Later Stone Age Southern Africa
!Kung Bushman Religious Beliefs
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  • July 1962

Africa

Lorna Marshall