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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: language and location in "The Gods Must Be Crazy (& some books)"
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 22:10:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 22:10:34 1985
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> Does anyone know the name of the language in which "Sho Sha Losa" was sung in
> "The Gods Must Be Crazy"?  Also, does anyone know the name of the place the
> bushman was from, and where "the end of the world" actually was?  
> 
	The bushmen were real bushmen from the Kalahari desert
in Southern Africa.   They are the !Kung people.  The ! stands
for a click sound that they make as a speech sound.    They are
discussed in the book *Anger* by Carol Tavris.   She says that
they are totally cooperative and brings them up because they
have special ways of dealing with anger.

	I read that the bushman that was the star was recruited from
the desert and he had to be taught to use a knife.    He just was
a natural actor. 

	A group that has some similiarities to the !Kung are the
BaMbuti.  They are mentioned in *Anger* too.  *The Forest
People* by Collin Turnbull is about the BaMbuti.   They live
in the forests in Zaire and they are also highly cooperative.

	The end of the earth?  Probably the sea coast of South-West
Africa.


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