![]() ![]() The term Bushmen, from 17th-century Dutch Bosjesmans, is still widely used by others and to self-identify, but in some instances the term has also been described as pejorative. ![]() "San" is a pejorative Khoekhoe appellation for foragers without cattle or other wealth, from a root saa "picking up from the ground" + plural -n in the Haiǁom dialect. "Bushmen" is the older cover term, but "San" had been widely adopted in the West by the late 1990s. Representatives of San peoples in 2003 stated their preference for the use of such individual group names where possible over the use of the collective term San. The San refer to themselves as their individual nations, such as ǃKung (also spelled ǃXuun, including the Juǀʼhoansi), ǀXam, Nǁnǂe (part of the ǂKhomani), Kxoe (Khwe and ǁAni), Haiǁom, Ncoakhoe, Tshuwau, Gǁana and Gǀui (ǀGwi), etc. I continued to use Bushman, and I was publicly corrected several times by the righteous. one did not call someone a San to his face. In the 1970s the name "San" spread in Europe and America because it seemed to be politically correct, while "Bushmen" sounded derogatory and sexist. "San" is a derogatory word originally used by the pastoralist Khoekhoe. ![]() The San have no collective word for themselves in their own languages. The designations "Bushmen" and "San" are both exonyms. Based on observation of lifestyle, this term has been applied to speakers of three distinct language families living between the Okavango River in Botswana and Etosha National Park in northwestern Namibia, extending up into southern Angola central peoples of most of Namibia and Botswana, extending into Zambia and Zimbabwe and the southern people in the central Kalahari towards the Molopo River, who are the last remnant of the previously extensive indigenous peoples of southern Africa. It is an exonym with the meaning of "foragers" and is used in a derogatory manner to describe nomadic foraging people. In Khoekhoegowab, the term "San" has a long vowel and is spelled Sān. In 2017, Botswana was home to approximately 63,500 San, making it the country with the highest proportion of San people at 2.8%. They speak, or their ancestors spoke, languages of the Khoe, Tuu and Kxʼa language families, and are only a 'people' in contrast to pastoralists such as the Khoekhoe and descendants of more recent waves of immigration such as the Bantu, Europeans and Asians. Their ancestral territories span Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa. The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. The territories shaded blue and green, and those to their east, are those of San peoples. A brilliant blend of science fiction, fantasy, and technothriller, it is a rich, multilayered epic of future possibilities.Map of modern distribution of "Khoisan" languages. Few science fiction sagas have achieved the level of critical acclaim-and best-selling popularity-as Tad Williams's Otherland novels. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever. Download/Read Otherland: Sea of Silver Light By Tad Williams Here => <= A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. ![]()
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