The !Kung Bushmen of Africa’s Kalahari desert are a people trapped by the myths art has created about them. Their unhappy history, and how it was shaped by a series of documentary films, is the ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 22, 2014 – After human ancestors controlled fire 400,000 to 1 million years ago, flames not only let them cook food and fend off predators, but also extended their day. A ...

Johannesburg — Commenting on the closure of the Kung (Bushman) diorama in the South African Museum ("Unmaking the San", April 6 to 12), Pippa Skotnes writes: "The challenge is not to get rid of the ...

DER is a documentary film distributor best known for its series on the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. The company was cofounded in 1968 by filmmaker John Marshall (1932-2005), whose ...

A study of Africa's Kalahari Bushmen suggests that stories told over firelight helped human culture and thought evolve by reinforcing social traditions, promoting harmony and equality, and sparking ...

For thousands of years, African tribesmen have eaten the Hoodia cactus to stave off hunger and thirst on long hunting trips. The Kung bushmen who live around the Kalahari desert in southern Africa ...

What Bushmen talk about by night differs greatly from what they discuss by day, says a US researcher whose study of hunter-gatherers in Africa suggests fireside chats help shape human culture, and ...

A group of !Kung Bushmen in Africa's Kalahari Desert work together to transcribe and translate a recorded firelight conversation into a written text. Such translations were used by University of Utah ...

What Bushmen talk about by night differs greatly from what they discuss by day, said a US researcher whose study Monday of hunter-gatherers in Africa suggests fireside chats helped shape human culture ...

Commenting on the closure of the Kung (Bushman) diorama in the South African Museum (“Unmaking the San”, April 6 to 12), Pippa Skotnes writes: “The challenge is not to get rid of the diorama, but to ...