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Dance of the First Born
To the best of our knowledge the San (Bushmen) of the Kalahari are the oldest surviving culture on Earth. They are a remarkable people who have somehow survived a phenomenal onslaught from imperialism and modernity and yet still hold on to their cultural existence with a tenacity that defines them as a people. What is their secret? In their words, it is their shamanic trance dance. If the dance dies they cease to exist. In this follow-up article to ‘Stoneage NLP’ in issue 86, Greg Laws continues their miraculous story San hunter gatherers and their close relatives, the San herders, are the oldest inhabitants of southern