Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa

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Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa is written by MATHIAS. GUENTHER and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197634354 (ISBN 10) and 9780197634356 (ISBN 13).

Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa gives an in-depth account of San mythology and its connections to the religion, social organization, and ecological adaptations of this erstwhile hunting-gathering people. The mythology and cosmology of San Bushmen posits ongoing connections and interactions between actual, experienced reality and virtual, imagined myth time. Along with conflations of human with animal and woman/wife with antelope/meat, the trickster-god figure is central to San mythology. In this book Mathias Guenther places San mythology firmly in the context of world mythology.