N!ow

Africa ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Kalahari Desert ◽  
South West ◽  
Run Off ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
Edible Roots ◽  
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Covering Vegetation

Opening ParagraphN!ow is a belief concerning rain and cold which is held by the !Kung Bushmen in the region around Nyae Nyae in South West Africa.About ten inches of rain falls in an average year in this part of the Kalahari Desert and sinks into the deep sands. There is no run-off in streams and there are few water holes. The rain is sufficient to support a covering vegetation of grass, shrubs, and scrubby trees. The vegetation includes numerous edible roots, tubers, leaves, fruits, and nuts, for which the Afrikaans language provides the convenient word veldkos.

The Kin Terminology System of the !Kung Bushmen

Africa ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Kalahari Desert ◽  
South West ◽  
Peabody Museum ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
White Farmers ◽  
North And South ◽  
Terminology System

Opening ParagraphThe Peabody Harvard Kalahari Expedition, under the leadership of Laurence K. Marshall, has made four field trips between 1950 and 1955 into the Kalahari Desert in South West Africa and the Bechuanaland Protectorate to find and study Bushmen who were living in their own way, and not working for white farmers or for Negroes. The last of the four expeditions, that of 1955, was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution as well as by the Peabody Museum of Harvard.Our principal study was made with the !Kung Bushmen of the Nyae Nyae region of South West Africa. The Nyae Nyae region extends about 150 miles north and south, about 100 miles east and west, and is centred approximately at Gautscha Pan, which is located at c. 19° 48′ 30″ S. and 20° 34′ 36″ E. on the map of a survey of the area by the Administration of South West Africa dated 7.11.1935. The Nyae Nyae region is separated from the farmed areas of South West Africa by a stretch of waterless, uninhabited country over 100 miles wide.

Sheep and Sheep-Herders in South Africa

Africa ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Willcox
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Hair Sheep ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
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Opening ParagraphIn a recent paper Mr. C. K. Cooke, F.S.A., discusses the questions of the introduction of sheep into Africa and their arrival in southern Africa (Cooke, 1965).Mr Cooke quotes Zeuner's conclusion (Zeuner, 1963) ‘that the first sheep in Africa were screw-horned hair sheep from Turkestan or Persia which reached lower Egypt about 5000 B.C. and Khartoum by 3300 B.C. This breed disappeared with the Middle Kingdom when it was replaced by a wool sheep and the fat-tailed sheep reached Africa only from the Roman period.’ Zeuner further asserts thatOne breed of sheep descended from the Egyptian hair-sheep had reached South-West Africa before the arrival of the Europeans. In these animals the profile is convex, the eyes are placed high on the skull and close to the drooping ears. The rams carry thick horns and a long ruff on the throat.

Vernacular Text-Books in South African Native Schools

Africa ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clement M. Doke
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
East Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
South West ◽  
Northern Sotho ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
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Opening ParagraphIn this survey of vernacular text-books I am confining my attention to the Union of South Africa and the three High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland. In this area we have five important literary language forms in use, viz. Xhosa and Zulu (belonging to the Nguni cluster of Bantu), and Southern Sotho, Tšwana, and Northern Sotho (belonging to the Sotho cluster). Reference will be made to two other languages spoken in the northern and eastern Transvaal, Venda and Tonga (commonly written as Thonga, and belonging to the cluster of languages spoken in Portuguese East Africa from Delagoa Bay northwards). I do not intend to deal with the languages spoken in the Mandated Territory of South-west Africa, nor with such intrusions as that of Kalanga into the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

!Kung Bushman Religious Beliefs

Africa ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
South West ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
The Dead ◽  
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Medicine Men

Opening ParagraphMy 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.

Marriage among !Kung Bushmen

Africa ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphBecause within the area we indicate by shading on the map the !Kung Bushmen intermarry among themselves, by custom and preference, members of the Harvard Peabody Smithsonian Kalahari Expeditions needed a convenient way of referring to that area as a unit and arbitrarily called it the region of Nyae Nyae.Nyae Nyae is a corruption of the !Kung name //Nua!ei. The name Nyae Nyae refers strictly to a group of pans in South West Africa (S.W.A.) centred approximately at Gautscha Pan at about 19° 48′ 30″ S, 20° 34′ 36″ E. We extend the application of the name to an area around the pans of about 10,000 square miles, lying for the most part in S.W.A. but reaching some miles over the border of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (B.P.). There are no strictly conceived boundaries around the area. We can only vaguely define it by saying that it does not include Karakuwise to the west or Chadum to the north. It does not, we think, reach eastward much farther than Kai Kai, or southward much beyond Blaubush Pan (40 or 50 miles south of Gam).

Notes on Southern African Tuberales

Bothalia ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 11 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. F. O. Marasas ◽  
James M. Trappe
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Kalahari Desert ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa

Three species of Tuberales have been found in Southern Africa.  Terfezia pfeilii Henn. occurs in the Kalahari Desert and adjacent areas of the Cape Province, Botswana and South-West Africa. The other two,  Terfezia austroafricana sp. nov. and  Choiromyces echinulatus sp. nov., are known only from the Cape.  C. echinulatus is the first representative of that genus to be collected in Africa or the Southern Hemisphere.

The Medicine Dance of the !Kung Bushmen

Africa ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
South West ◽  
The People ◽  
Prolonged Contact ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Made In

Opening ParagraphThe !Kung Bushmen whose medicine dance is described in this paper live in the interior of the Nyae Nyae region in South West Africa. The observations were made in the years 1951–61, in the course of five expeditions. The bands with which expedition members had the closest and most prolonged contact were those that the author numbered 1-7, 9, 10, and 12 on the map (Fig. 1). The present study is concerned principally with the people in those bands, who numbered, in all, 225 persons. The information gathered from informants was obtained for the most part in 1952–3, when twelve consecutive months were spent in the Nyae Nyae region.

scholarly journals Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition in South-west Africa, 1908–9

Nature ◽  
1909 ◽  
Vol 81 (2085) ◽  
pp. 466-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. W. PEARSON
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa

The Legal Status and Functioning of the United Nations Council for Namibia

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-208
Author(s):  
Karin Arts
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
The United Nations

In 1966 the General Assembly of the United Nations revoked the Mandate over South West Africa (Namibia) and thus terminated South Africa's right to administer the territory. It furthermore placed Namibia under the direct responsibility of the United Nations. Administration of the territory was delegated by the General Assembly to a subsidiary organ, the UnitedNations Council for Namibia (UNCN). The author briefly describes the establishment, the structure, the functions and the powers of the Council. Special attention will be paid to questions concerning the legal status of the UNCN. Finally the major activities of the Council will be reviewed and appraised

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