Mathias Guenther is an anthropologist, and this Indiana University Press book is his scholarly ethnographic study of Bushman, or San, religion and society, covering trickster narratives and the trance practice central to San ritual healing. Its strength is that it is built on Guenther's own extensive fieldwork among San communities, combining close ethnographic observation with analysis of trickster mythology as a coherent religious category rather than treating trickster tales as mere folklore. Its limit is that it reflects the San communities and period Guenther studied specifically, so a claim about a different San group or a different historical period needs a source matched to that specific context.
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Published by Indiana University Press as Mathias Guenther's scholarly ethnographic study of San religion built on his own fieldwork, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesScholarly study of Bushman (San) religion and society, covering trickster narratives and trance practice.
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AuthorMathias Guenther
PublisherIndiana University Press
Publication Year1999
Source TypeEthnography
Claims Backed By This Source (27 claims)
This source backs 27 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Cultures, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Religions, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
- Countries, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Studies, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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