essay
The creative individual in the world of the !Kung San
Creativity/anthropology • Ithaca • Published In 1993 • Pages: 54-69
By: Shostak, Marjorie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper, Shostak explores !Kung creativity and the problematic role of !Kung artists in their highly egalitarian society. Although !Kung musicians, healers, bead-weavers, and storytellers are constantly contributing to and refreshing !Kung culture, they are careful not to stand out and put themselves above others. Instead they downplay their accomplishments. Shostak interviews three different artists, a musician, healer, and bead-weaver and discuses how they manange. She concludes that because no change of status results from creative expression it is tolerated and indeed 'creativity flourishes in !Kung life' (page 68 ).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Modification of behavior
- Personality traits
- Music
- Visual arts
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Revelation and divination
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-71, 1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1969-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dobe area, Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marjorie Shostak
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 69)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92052765
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)