“The !Kung are strongly set against violence, and accord it no honor. To have to fight is to have failed to find a solution by wiser means... “Fighting is dangerous—someone might get killed”.” BushmenKungJu WasiKalahari Author:Lorna Marshall
“But,” I asked, “ why insult a man after he has gone to all that trouble to track and kill an animal and when he is going to share the meat with you so that your children will have something to eat?” “Arrogance,” was his cryptic answer. “Arrogance?” “Yes, when a young man kills much meat, he comes to think of himself as a chief or a big man, and he thinks of the rest of us as his servants or inferiors. We can’t accept this. We refuse one who boasts, for someday his pride will make him kill somebody. So we always speak of his meat as worthless. This way we cool his heart and make him gentle.” BushmenKungJu WasiJu HoansiKalahariEating Christmas In The Kalahari Author:Richard B. Lee
“Because of the heat and the lack of water and materials for shelter, much of the Central Kalahari has remained unexplored and unsettled. From our camp there was no village around the corner or down the road. There was no road. We had to haul our water a hundred miles through the bushveld, and without a cabin, electricity, a radio, a television, a hospital, a grocery store, or any sign of other humans and their artifacts for months at a time, we were totally cut off from the outside world.” BotswanaKalahari Book:Cry of the Kalahari Source: Cry of the Kalahari