External Trade

Travel

Bibliographies in Sources

Inheritance

Life and Death

Dance

Organized Ceremonial

Puberty and Initiation

Exchange Transactions

Division of Labor by Gender

Magical and Mental Therapy

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Magicians and Diviners

Household

Polygamy

Extended Families

Real Property

Historical Reconstruction

History

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Production and Supply

Labor Supply and Employment

Serfdom and Peonage

Organization and Analysis of Results

Linguistic Identification

Regulation of Marriage

Mode of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Termination of Marriage

Glossary

Ecclesiastical Organization

Ingroup Antagonisms

Annual Cycle

Dwellings

Settlement Patterns

Multi-Ethnic Community Relations

Identification

Location

Climate

Topography and Geology

Material Not Relevant

Reviews and Critiques

Social Control

Informal in-Group Justice

Sanctions

Judicial Authority

Status, Role, and Prestige

Age Stratification

Infant Care

Techniques of Socialization

General Character of Religion

Spirits and Gods

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Visual Arts

Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

Domesticated Animals

Tillage

Diet

Alcoholic Beverages

Internal Trade

Community Heads

Body Alterations

Gift Giving

Social Relationships and Groups

Kindreds and Ramages

Community Structure

Kinship Terminology

Rules of Descent

Lineages

Population

Birth Statistics

Mortality

CULTURE SUMMARY: SAN

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

SYNOPSIS

INDEXING NOTES

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

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The term &#x22;San&#x22; has largely replaced &#x22;Buchman&#x22; (Bushmen) as an ethnographic term designating both the contemporary and the precolonial southern African peoples who live primarily in northwestern Botswana (Ngamiland), adjacent parts of Namibia, and southern Angola. The San languages are usually classified as being in the Khoisan language family and are distinct in containing a number of click consonants. Settlements are generally composed of anywhere from one to a dozen dispersed, extended family homesteads, with residence being based on bilateral kinship. The San are frequently described as hunter-gatherers or foragers, but in the twentieth century fewer than five percent depend on foraging for their bulk of subsistence, depending instead on herding and limited agriculture, supplemented with some limited hunting and gathering.

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