RT Book
T1 Once upon a time is now: a Kalahari memoir
A1 Biesele, Megan 1955-
LA English
PP New York Oxford
PB Berghahn
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1861529988
AB "Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time. The treasure trove of vivid learning experiences and nightly ponderings she found has led to a memoir of rare value to anthropology students and academics as well as to general readers. Her experiences focus on the long-lived healing dance, known to many as the trance dance, and the intricate beliefs, artistry, and social system that support it. She describes her immersion in a creative community enlivened and kept healthy by that dance, which she calls "one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.""--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN GN21.B4739
SN 9781805390664
K1 Biesele, Megan
K1 San (African people) : Rites and ceremonies
K1 !Kung (African people) : Rites and ceremonies
K1 San (African people) : Religion
K1 !Kung (African people) : Religion
K1 Ecstatic dance : Africa, Southern
K1 Anthropologists : United States : Biography
K1 Anthropologists : Africa, Southern : Biography
DO 10.3167/9781800738799