Megan Biesele
The Ju/’hoansi and the Kalahari Peoples Fund [anthology chapter reviews, part 1]
Graduate-student anthropologists in the Harvard Kalahari Research Group learned so much from the Ju/’hoansi that they developed the Kalahari Peoples Fund as a way of reciprocating. “We all felt that somehow we must try to equalize our exchanges with the Ju/’hoansi, that somehow we must give back some compensation for the knowledge of their culture […]
Elderly Ju/’hoansi and Their Grandchildren
A charming Ju/’hoansi folktale describes the way grandmother cared for a few droplets of blood that came on the wind to her after the death of her granddaughter, Elephant Girl. The droplets grew steadily, first in a bottle, then in a skin bag, until Elephant Girl was nearly ready to reappear. One day, while the […]
