What does it mean to be the 'oldest culture on the planet'?
How many San live traditional lifestyles?
Why do foreigners seek the San? What do they want from them? Does the popular perception of them match reality? Is it romanticized? Exoticized?
What about the environment in the Kalahari limits its usefulness for farming or cities? How do foragers cope with their resources?
What is unusual about San language?
Social organization: What does it mean to be egalitarian? How does a group make decisions by consensus? How important is sharing, not just as a moral idea but as a point of social organization?
Religion and the arts: So, which is dance -- religion or art?
Medicine: Hey, is that dancing, too?
How did their neigbors see them?
Social change: What are the San's biggest problems? How do they react to outsiders? What is ethnotourism?
And speaking of ethnotourism: what is authenticity? Can you teach someone else your culture and not have your culture change? is there a difference between being an ethnographic informant and ethnographic theater?
What is the Kuru Arts Project? Who started it? With what goals? Did it accomplish anything?
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