Boiling energy : Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung

356 Pages·1982·45.1 MB·English

by  Richard Katz

Energy
Boiling
Community Among
Healing the Kalahari Kung
Richard Katz
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Boiling Energy

Energy
Boiling
Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung
Richard Katz
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England
Copyright © 1982 by the President and Fellows
of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Katz, Richard, 1937
Boiling energy
Bibliography: p.
Includes index
1 !Kung (African people)- Medicine. 2. Medicine,
Primitive— Botswana. 3. Medicine, Primitive - Africa,
Southern. I. Title.
DT797.K37 615.8'52 81-13383
ISBN 0-674-07736-9 (paper) AACR2
To the Zhutwasi

Contents
Foreword by Richard B. Lee ix
Acknowledgments
x/7/
Kung Who Speak in This Book xvii
1 Starting Points 7
2 Kung Hunter-Gatherers n
3 The Kung Approach to Healing 33
4 At a Healing Dance 58
5 Kinachau, a Traditional Healer so
6 "The Death That Kills Us All" 92
7 Education for Healing 777
8 Career of the Healer 747
9 Female Perspectives 759
10 Toma Zho, a Healer in Transition 777
11 The Tradition of Sharing 796
12 Kau Dwa, a Strong Healer 277
13 Wa Na, a Healer among Healers 222
14 Psychological and Spiritual Growth 229
15 The Challenge of Change 250
16 A Final Meeting with Kinachau 280
17 "Tell Our Story to Your People" 295
Orthography 312
Glossary 314
Bibliography 317
Index 324
Illustrations
Wa Na in Kia /'/'
Dobe area in the Kalahari Desert xvi
Family at the morning meal 7
Women enjoying each other's company 12
Healing dance at dawn 33
Kinachau being worked on in kia 58
Kinachau 80
Kau Dwa healing 92
Helping a healer regulate boiling num 777
An aspiring healer 747
Bau falling in kia 759
Toma Zho 777
After a night of dance 796
Kau Dwa 277
Wa Na 222
Experiencing kia 229
Self-portraits of Toma Zho, Wi, Kinachau, and others 237
Kau Dwa healing a pregnant Herero 250
Kinachau studying the root 280
Young girls singing 295