The San people of Africa

The San are one of the most ancient groups of people on earth. They have lived in the Kalahari for at least 20,000 years — long before the arrival of Bantu-speaking peoples or white colonizers. Over these millennia they developed not only unmatched tracking skills and ecological knowledge, but also a worldview where the boundary between human and animal is never fixed. In trance, San healers say they slip out of their skin and enter the body of a lion. They feel fur sprout, teeth sharpen, paws s

The noble Mantis: Wisdom of the San people