Healing Ritual and Socio-Economic Change in an African Society

该项目将需要对重大社会经济变化背景下的博茨瓦纳桑人（布须曼人）治疗仪式进行为期20年的后续研究，由一个经验丰富的语言能力强的男女研究人员团队进行。该项目的目标是制作一种当代民族志，作为传统对新的社会经济因素的回应，如定居化、性别关系的变化、平等主义的下降和新兴的政治化领导。该项目将扩大自20世纪60年代以来对该社会的研究。将在四个地点进行为期六个月的实地观察，这些地点代表了|Kung San与他们所生活的田园和工业社会之间的一系列社会关系。疗愈者的演讲和疗愈仪式歌曲的频率、持续时间、人员、基本原理和提供的服务将补充对疗愈者生活史的深入采访。这种研究很重要，因为它揭示了土著人民如何理解和应对压倒他们的广泛的社会、政治和经济趋势。

This project will entail a 20-year follow-up study of the Botswana San (Bushman) healing rituals in the context of major socioeconomic change, carried out by a seasoned linguistically competent team of male and female researchers. The goal of the project is to produce a contemporary ethnography of |Kung religious healing as a response of tradition to new socioeconomic factors such as sedentarization, changing gender relationships, decreased egalitarianism and an emergent politicized leadership. This project will augment research on this society conducted since the 1960s. Six months of field observation will occur at four sites representing a range of social relationships between the |Kung San and the pastoral and industrial societies they live with. The frequency, duration, personnel, rationales for, and delivered services of healer's orations and healing ceremony-songs will complement in-depth interviews on life-histories of healers. Such research is important for the light it sheds on how indigenous peoples understand and react to the broad social, political and economic trends that overwhelm them.