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      This edition first published in 2002

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       Dedication

      For the Ancestors

       Epigraph

      Circling, circling …

      I have entered the airy, dancing lightness of love.

      Rumi

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Map

Part One: Ancestral Voices

1 Stories and Myths

2 Lessons in Reality

3 Under the Big Tree

Part Two: The Mantis, The Mouse and The Bird

4 Regopstaan’s Prophecy

       5 A Human Zoo

       6 Old Magic, New Beliefs

       7 Trance Dance at Buitsevango

       8 Into the Central Kalahari

       Part Three: The Good Little Donkeys

       9 Revelations at the Red House

       10 The Same Blood

       11 Dream and Disillusion

       12 The Leopard Man

       13 Dawid Makes a Request

       14 Bushman Politics

       15 Off to See a Wizard

       16 The River of Spirits

       17 What Happened After

       Glossary

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Map

PART ONE ANCESTRAL VOICES

       1 Stories and Myths

In the beginning, so my mother told me, were the Bushmen – peaceful, golden-skinned hunters whom people also called KhoiSan or San. They had lived in Africa longer than anyone else. Africa was also where we were from; my South African mother and Rhodesian father

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