The San are the indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of Southern Africa, historically inhabiting the Kalahari Desert region across present-day Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Angola, and speaking a family of click-consonant Khoisan languages distinct from the Bantu languages of most of their neighbors. San communities are among the most extensively studied hunter-gatherer societies in anthropology, particularly through mid-twentieth-century ethnographic work on the !Kung, though that literature has itself been the subject of the 'Kalahari debate' over how much San foraging life represented a persisting ancient pattern versus a historically contingent adaptation. Land dispossession, including court battles over access to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana, remains a live and documented issue for San communities today. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Group TypeSourced to the subject's own accountIndigenous ethnic group (hunter-gatherer) 1 Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountSouthern Africa (Kalahari Desert region: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Angola) 1 Primary LanguageSourced to the subject's own accountSan languages (Khoisan family, including !Kung and other click-consonant languages) 1 Subsistence ModeSourced to the subject's own accountHistorically hunting and gathering in the Kalahari Desert; today the great majority live in settled communities with limited access to traditional hunting grounds. 1 Subsistence Mode
Subsistence Mode (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Disputed
Population Estimateapproximately 90,000 to 100,000 1 Sourced to the subject's own accountPrecise counts are difficult because San identity and self-identification vary, and many San individuals live in mixed settlements without separate ethnic enumeration. Group Type
Group Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Group Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Population Band
Population Band (category)Sourced to the subject's own account San
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Hxaro is a delayed reciprocal gift-exchange network documented among the San (Ju/'hoansi) of the Kalahari, binding partners across dispersed camps.
The healing trance dance is a central ritual of San (Ju/'hoansi) religious and medical practice in the Kalahari, performed to draw out illness through trance.
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Source Wikipedia: SanLeadtier 3Quote, Lead
The San speak, or their ancestors spoke, languages of the Khoe, Tuu, and Kxʼa language families
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Source Wikipedia: SanLeadtier 3Quote, Lead
The San speak, or their ancestors spoke, languages of the Khoe, Tuu, and Kxʼa language families
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Source San (Wikipedia)IntroductionQuote, Introduction
The San peoples, or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region.
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The San peoples, or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region.
- Infobox population field: ca. 160000
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