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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trance healers of the African Ju/'hoansi (Kung!) people seen through the flames. Telling stories around a campfire may have served as one of the first forms of "social media," helping humans create ...

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 ...

Learning to control fire did more than just keep out the winter chill and advance cookery skills, according to a leading anthropologist. The camp fire extended the day beyond sunset; promoted social ...

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 ...