INDEX
All page number are refer to the print edition of this title.
!aaiha, 22–23
Adam, x
!aia, 16, 20, 39–40, 130–31
Akstein, David, 52
ambiguity, xii
ancestors, 55–56, 63–64, 73–76,
144–45
anger, 12, 54
animals, 62, 94–97, 145, 149, 151–52
≠ara-khoe, 36
arrows, 10–13, 35–36, 119–20, 143
||auhsi, 10–13
bad ancestors, xxv–xxvi, 21
Barnard, Izak, xv, xxiii–xxiv
Bateson, Gregory, xiv–xv
Beesa Boo, xv, xix–xx, 1
Beh, 194–98
belly pump, xxi–xxii, 16, 52, 87,
88–89, 140
bend the ropes, xxix
Biesele, Megan, xi, xv, xvii, xx, 45, 158
Bleek, Dorothea, x–xi
Bleek, Wilhelm, x–xi, 33
blood, 105–6, 126–28
blowing, 48–49
Blundell, Geoffrey, xv
boasting, 47–49, 93
body sensations, 76
body-to-body contact, 42
Bushman elders, xv–xx, 1–2, 111–12
G|aq’o Kaqece, 150–61
Kaqece |Kaece, 169–70
|Kunta Boo, 184–207
N!ae G≠kau, 114–20
N!ae Kxao, 121–24
N!ani G|aq’o, 162–65
≠Oma Dahm, 143–49
T|!aw ≠Oma, 125–39
Tci!xo !U|, 166–68
Tcoq’a |Ui, 173–76
|Ui Debe, 171–73
|Ui N!a’an, 140–42
|Xoan |Kun, 177–83
camel thorn tree, 28–29, 68, 78
Carlson, Jon, xv
Cashdan, Elizabeth, xi
changing, the, 53–60, 70
circular relationship, 60
clapping, xxix
colors, 146–47
community, 14
conversation, 110
cooked by God, 10–14, 17, 24–25
core teachings
all of creation dances, 85–93
Bushman healers and healing, 45–51
the changing, 53–60
dancing with God, 111–12
first and second creation, 61–72
getting cooked by God, 10–14
God’s divine egg, 4–9
heart of the spears, 98–103
ideal Bushman life, 109–10
kabis and the classroom, 77–84
meeting the ancestors, 73–76
n|om songs, 94–97
old ways, 104–8
receiving n|om, 15–19
stations of n|om, 20–25
transmitting n|om, 35–44
creation dances, 85–93
cunkuri, 78
da’a, 28–29
dances, xxv–xxvi, xxvii–xxxii,
85–93
dance stomp, xxi–xxii
dark, 60
death, 16
defense, 142
definitions, xix
DeVore, Irven, xi
Dickens, Patrick, xix, 45
dirty nails, 11–13, 22–23
discourse, 148
divine egg, xxiii, xxvi, 4–9, 116–19,
187, 190
djxani-!uhsi, 41
DNA, x
Draper, Patricia, xi
dreams, xxi, 77–84
drums, 182
ear tips, 123, 125–26, 138
ecstatic dance, 14
ecstatic laughter, 84
ecstatic spirituality, 148
eland dance, 64–65, 66, 85, 91,
122–23, 126–28
elders, xv–xx, 1–2, 111–12
G|aq’o Kaqece, 150–61
Kaqece |Kaece, 169–70
|Kunta Boo, 184–207
N!ae G≠kau, 114–20
N!ae Kxao, 121–24
N!ani G|aq’o, 162–65
≠Oma Dahm, 143–49
Tci!xo !Ui, 166–68
Tcoq’a |Ui, 173–76
Ti!ae ≠Oma, 125–39
|Ui Debe, 171–73
|Ui N!a’an, 140–42
|Xoan |Kun, 177–83
elephant dance, xvii, 89–90,
162–64
emotional change, 59
energy medicine, xxi–xxii
England, Nicholas, xi
entoptics, 71–72
Eve, x
fall, 63
fear, 20–21, 48, 73
feelings, 96–97
Filipetti, Frank, xv
fire, 21, 46
first creation, 61–72, 104, 107–8, 127,
137, 156–60, 205–7
flirting, 123
Fulford, Robert, 36
full bodied experience, xxx
g!a’ama-n!ausi, 22
g||abesi tuih, 20
g||aoan≠’angsi, 63–64
g||aoansi, 55–56, 73–74
g≠aqba-n!a’an, 98–103
G|aq’o Kaqece, xvii, xviii, 150–61
garden of Eden, x
Gauh-!o, 64
giraffe dance, xvii, 85, 87–91, 114–15,
196–97
G≠kao Na’an, 64
g!oah dance, xvii, xviii, 85, 87–90,
92–93
g!oah tree, 133
g!oan, 107
God, 102, 111–12, 146–47, 154–56,
195–99
Gods Must Be Crazy, The, xviii
God’s ostrich egg, xxiii, xxvi, 4–9,
116–19, 187, 190
good ancestors, xxv–xxvi
Gordon, Robert, xi
grass dance, 64
gua, 20–25
hallucinations, 70–72
||hann!ang, 16
Harvard Kalahari Research Group
(HKRG), xi
healers and healing, ix, 12–13, 15–16,
20–25, 54, 143–46, 160–61
practice of, 45–51
transmitting n|om, 35–44
heart, 36
heart-to-heart transmission, 36
heating n|om, 10–14
Hill, Patrick, xv
Hitchcock, Robert, xi
≠hoe, 48
Hollmann, Jeremy, xv
holy ghost laughing, 84
holy ghost power, 204
horn arrows, 35–36
horses, 64–65, 66
!hui, 26
humility, 9
hunters, xxvi, 105, 137
hyenas, 66–67
ideal life, 109–10
ignorance, 68–69
initiation rites, 135–39, 203–4
internal pump, 88–89
intimacy, 69–70
jealousy, 54
Jesus, 111–12, 190
Johnson, Peter, xv
Jones, Nicholas, xi
joy, 15, 19, 23
Ju|’hoan Transcription Group, xix–xx
ju ka g≠om, 140–42
kabi, 26
kabis, 77–84
Kaqece |Kaece, 169–70
Katz, Richard, xi, xii–xiii
kau-hariri, 48
Keeney, Bradford, xiv–xv, xxiii–xxiv, 149
Keeney, Hillary, xv–xvi
Kelly, Melinda, xi
Kottler, Jeffrey, xv
Kundla, Mark, xv
|Kunta |Ai!ae, xvii, 99–100, 114–17
|Kunta Boo, xvi–xviii, 2, 27, 35–36,
45–47, 77–78, 104, 143–44,
184–207
kxae≠xaisi, 31–32
Labriola, Tony, xv
language, xxix, 18–19
laughter, 84, 109–10, 153
Lee, Richard, xi
Lessard, Grant, xv
Lewis-Williams, David, xi, xiv, xv,
70, 136, 137
life force, 4–5
light, 60
lion, 152, 186
Lloyd, Lucy, x–xi, 33, 136
love, 21–22, 23, 37
Low, Chris, xi, 51
magical incantations, xxi
Manisi n!a’an-n!a’an, 63
Marshall, John, xi, xxi, 45–47, 184–94
Marshall, Laurence, xi
Marshall, Lorna, xi, xxx, 135–36,
158–59
medicine powder, 105, 107
menstruation, 105–6, 121–24, 126–
28, 135–39, 184–85, 196
Miller, Piri, xv
mindfulness, xxi
missionaries, 31, 111–12, 190
mystery of life, xxxi–xxxii
N!ae G≠kau, xvii, xviii–xix, 99–102,
114–20
N!ae Kxao, xvii, 81, 121–24
n≠ah, 68
nails, 10–13, 22–23, 36, 119–20
n!angsi, 65
N!ani G|aq’o, xvii, 162–65
n!aoah-ma, 56
n!aroh-||xam, 20–25, 67
nature, xxvi
needles of n|om, 10–13
new thought, xxi
Nickerson, Kern, xv
n≠oahn, 140–42
n!o’an-ka|’ae, 53–60
n!o’an-n|om, 11–12
n|om, ix, xi–xiv, xxi–xxii, xxv–xxvi,
4–5, 9, 140–42
receiving, 15–19
stations of n|om, 20–25
transmitting, 35–44
n|om-da’a, 140–42
n|om dancing, xxvii–xxxii
n|om-kxao, ix, 98–103, 160–61
n|om songs, xxvi–xxvii, 42–43, 83, 94–97
nosebleeds, 16, 49, 89
n≠u’uhan-kxaosi, 21–22, 41
N!xau ≠Toma, xviii
Oklas, 67
old ways, 104–8
≠Oma Dahm, xvii, xviii, 50, 143–49
Osaka, Masakazu, xi
ostrich egg, xxiii, xxvi, 4–9, 116–19,
187, 190
outsiders, 165, 204–5
pain, 15, 48
Pearce, David, 136
perfume, 106–7
positive thinking, xxi
power, 21–22, 48, 142, 144
puberty, 128, 135–39, 184–85, 203–4
pulling, 47–49, 52
rebirth, 16
Rhodesian teak, 107
rhythmic vocal expression, xxi–xxii
rock art, xxiv, 64, 70–72
Rock Art Research Institute, xiv–xv
ropes to God, xxiii, xxiv–xxv, 14,
26–34, 43, 67–68, 87, 146–47
Science, x
second creation, 61–72, 104, 107–8, 137
seeing properly, 31–32
sensitivity, 17–18
sex, 138–39, 154
shaking, xi–xii, xxvii, 11, 39, 43–44, 52
shamans and shamanism, ix, 70–72, 96–97
Shostak, Marjorie, xi
showing off, 21
sickness, 27, 47–49, 52, 54, 75
singing, xxvi–xxvii, 17, 86. See also
n|om songs
Sky God, ix, xxiv, xxvi, xxxi, 5, 7,
27–32, 59–60, 61–62, 67–68,
110, 111–12, 154–56, 195–99
Smith, Benjamin, xv
snakes, 65, 143, 152
sniffing, 48–49
somatic experience, 148
soul retrieval, 43
sounds, 140–42
spelling, xix
Spencer-Brown, George, 69
spirituality, ix, 148
spitting, 48–49
stability, 59–60
stable realities, 69
stasis, 69
stations of n|om, 20–25
storytelling, xxix, 156–60
subtle energy, xxvii
suffering, 21–22
Sugawara, Kazuyoshi, xi
synesthesia, 96–97
systemic therapy, 59
T|!ae ≠Oma, 125–39
Takada, Akira, xi
talk, xxix, 17, 48
Tanaka, Jiro, xi
Tci!xo !Ui, 166–68
tco, 40
tco-kxao, 23
Tcoq’a |Ui, xvii, xviii–xix, 173–76
teasing, 38–39
thara, xxvii, 43–44, 79–80, 100
thara n|om, 22–23, 39–40
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, xi
thorns, 13–14
thought, xxix
thumb piano, 128–29
thuru, 56, 60, 186
Ti!aw ≠Oma, xvii, xviii, xviii–xix
Tishkoff, Sarah, x
tortoise shells, 106–7
trances, xxiv, 16, 52
trickster, xxix, 12–13, 55–56, 59–60,
67–68, 75–76, 141, 198–99
|Ui Debe, xvii, 171–73
|Ui N!a’an, 140–42
≠umsi !Xu, 5
urine, 98–99
Vahrmeijer, Hans, xv, 34
vision, 26
vitality, 69–70
water, 78–80, 99
wild foods, 124
winter, 63
wisdom, 8–9, 139
|Xam Bushman, xi
!xaua-khoe, 68–69
|Xoan |Kun, xviii–xix, 177–83
|xuri kxaosi, 55–56
!Xu tci, 80
Zen, 41–42