Who Are The San Bushmen? | The World's Oldest People
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Who are the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert? A people that lived in the same way for about 100,000 years up until very recently. These San Bushmen give us a glimpse into the world of our ancestors, the world of hunter-gatherers. For the vast majority of human history, we have not been farmers we were hunter-gatherers. Like the San Bushmen. So join me as we look at the history and culture of the San Bushmen and what it says about hunter-gatherers and even our own modern world.
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No, academia uses hunter gatherer, not San since it is an offensive word.
Loved the vid, but one note: our consumption hasn’t increased much. The main growth in consumption has come from the richest 1% of the population. Those are also the people who have gotten exponentially richer the past centuries.
10:22 australia is upside down.
Take a look at the book The conquest of bread by anthropologist Peter Kropotkin (ex russian nobility who gave up his title and became an anarchist, very interesting)
You did your homework well. I'm !xhosa
As a Namibian who speaks one of the Khoisan languages. I want to congratulate you for doing a great job on this video. Great video.
Are there any good Namibian bands?
you should teach
Hi my name is HyRraine and I find it fascinating I would like to learn more???
You have one of the oldest monosylablical with click language on earth. Greetings from Albania
Hello! Thanks for letting me know this video makes sense to you.
Me: Struggles to pronounce just about everything, even my native English.
Cogito: Rocks a word with a click in it.
But you didn't hear the 48 takes that were cut :D
@@CogitoEdu genetic evidence ,at this time, suggests that native americans and irish had common ancestors with people in present day kazakhstan, aprox. 40 - 50,000 ya. native americans are also part neandertal, as is everyone in the world outside africa. homo erectus lived from europe to indonesia for almost 2 million years and their genes are still alive today from neanders and denisovans and probably dozens more as yet unknown groups of humans.
@IKtheVS issues?
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Other genetic anomalies have been found in close proximity to where apparently hybridized skeletons in, I believe SE Africa. The oddity was originally found in two African Americans and a search was expanded to Africa.
Only a few matches were found but I believe all of them were near the skeletal site. Not enough is known right now to identify the admixture. However, species can interbreed long after original population separations. The ability to produce fertile offspring is no longer, if it ever was, the criteria for a single species.
How do you even make that click sound anyway? It doesn't quite sound like clicking your tongue against the roof of your mouth...
"But then Europeans arrived." Uh OH, this isn't going to end well, is it?
as a mexican, lol i say probably not
@Jayne Eyre why do you people all ways say African tribes were killing each other this kind of action was normal back then think of it as kingdoms fighting each.
@@xocrow1120 yeah, and if europeans didn't subjugate the African people. Nothing would really be different, well there would be one diffrent thing africa would be like the balkans, and caucasus, but ten million times worse I mean just look at the ethnic map of africa. It was a gift from the gods for the africans to be united because otherwise endless war would literally be a possibility. You know on second though maybe diversity isn't everything? Anyway look I wrote this not in an offensive way but in a realistic way, because with so much ethnic diversity it is no doubt conflict would be rampant in africa even more, than now. But I guess the one posotive would be that some people might be that the Arabs would have a easier time colonizing africa. But really I kinda prefer africa as colonized, than not because jeese have you seen all the pointless ethic civil wars imagine, just imagine all those wars but x50, and all over the continent. Also, will somebody call me racist for objective truth who knows? The world after all is a mysterious place.
@@otakuman6049 I would strongly disagree. Although there were a hundreds of ethnic groups within Africa, a lot of groups are united because of trade, geographical features, language similarities, religious or cultural practices and so on. A lot of the ethnic wars that you speak of are as a result of the interference of the colonisers. This is not saying that there were no ethnic clashes (just like there are in any other part of the world). Some colonisers admitted that Africans united against the invaders would have been capable of resistance against them the same way the Ethiopians did (despite their inferior weapons). But part of the scheme of colonising Africans was to pin us against one another whether it was by amplifying minor hostilities that already existed or by creating new ones (such as converting Africans into Christians that demonise their own cultures). A lot of the issues we face today and that we've had in the past have had a foundation or influence of colonialism or the involvement of foreign countries in some way. Colonialism did damage that has massive echoes in our societies today and those include some of the ethnic wars and hostilities that exist.
@@nessy8038 well sir you clearly don't recognize how bad african geography is I mean farming in most area's is nearly impossible. And anyways even if african nations were united by trade or mutual rivals. What stops a stronger bigger tribe from taking over, and subjicating a weaker tribe after all ambition is always going to be in the hearts of many people. And also what really stopped any of the European powers from occupying parts of africa temporarily to get a strategic point in the world wars. Also it would literally be a miracle africa would not be colonized, I mean in tge cold war africa would be a hell on earth with so many rivals, allies, and backstabbing it'd make the three kingdoms period of china look like the age of great unification. In retrospect africa was always meant to be poor. Of course unless a miraculous event only a true all powerful being could make happen happened. You know I find it hilarious sometimes when people unironically suggest returing to monke, that's rights after we return to monke we will truly experience heaven on earth conflict will cease to exist, and god will come down and say that earth was the true heaven after all. Instead of you know the deases, bad sanitation, and predators at every corner. Anyway to say the least I completely disagree.
It's a tragedy when a native people are robbed of their land, language, culture and independence
And its happened so much over time. 🙁Its so sad people still suffer from the repercussions.
YES! I am berber. They took the land and arabized it. Now they say we are arabs. We are not
Vive imazighen.
@@fatimaezzahraira7742 i never knew berbers speak french
@@rubabaazfar we speak french as a 2nd language our native language is called tamazight - some of us speak spanish as a second language ( berbers- in the rif region)
@@fatimaezzahraira7742 no arabic?
"Vines cover the ruins of Rome, Sand covers the sphinx and the juncles reclaimed the cities of the Olmecs, but the San remain." Thats powerful.
Just goes to show that just because something is more ancient or "primitive" doesn't mean its all bad and we can still learn alot from it.
the most valuable lessons to be learnt,would be the food/medicinal plants they used,..before big pharmaceutical co.synthesize,and sell them to you-the San are a permanent culture.
If you don’t have a materially rich culture, then other cultures aren’t gonna invade and try to conquer you. That way you can survive.
Mac mcskullface I wouldn’t say the San were conquered, at least not in the way that the Romans, Egyptians, etc. were conquered. The San civilization remains because they never had real permanent settlements, so they could migrate to the Kalahari desert where no one else wanted to pursue them.
Except modern day civilization has many influences from all the cultures you mentioned. And we still study and learn about them. How much did you know about the San before this? How much have they contributed to today's society?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the San are bad. Both have their own benefits. However modern civilization has a lot of benefits that people tend to often overlook. Don't forget that for most primative cultures that still exist the youth are joining society more and more each generation. There's a reason for that.
Mac mcskullface nilotics never made it that far south, cushtic pastoralists did 3,000 years ago and actually gave the Khoisan the gene for lightskin which they selected for due to more temperate environment, but the cushtics were eventually assimilated genetically and phenotypically by the Khoe . Bantu farmers absorbed and traded with them and they both stole cattle from one another but nothing huge really happened until shaka set up his kingdom
proud namibian here :D some san tribes are still around here and are protected
Tru Tru
@Cure4Living True, as a South African I really feel sorry for them as they are my fellow countrymen. They have been marginalised by our government due to democracy as their population is extremely low. Moreover, many people of mixed race are descended from them whose poverty in the western part of the country is quite bad.
Yeah, their way of life has changed a lot though. In Bots, some a given permits to hunt, to protect wild animal populations from extinction. Its a different life though.
Sadly. If someone else has to protect you, you are not free. Particularly if the protector is the one who put you in that situation in the 1st place.
Protected meaning ``wait till they die out or give in" they will never allowed an expansion on private property.
As a native American living on a reservation I feel there pain hope them the best in the future 🙏🙏 just subed to the channel
yes, the pain mutual.
What tribe are you from?
What do you mean reservation? Are there still reserves? I thought that sort of barbarism ended with independence? I'm from Africa by the way so forgive me if I'm ignorant about this topic.
@@proculusjulius7035 there are still reservation love
@@bapyongukgukguk2352 that is just savagery. Why would they be kept in reserves?
"Hipity hopity your land is now my property".... as a native I laughed at how REAL that was 🤣🤣
Xhosa dude here, your click sounds are not bad dude, definitely way better than the ones in the film Black Panther, where they supposedly speak xhosa
that movie is trash
Why white ppl hate that movie?
@@mar1355 White dude here, don't hate it. Just think it's overrated as a film and that the CGI is pretty dated even at that time.
But I just dislike Marvel films in general nowadays. They're all the same :(
@@mar1355 I'm black african. I hate it because they kind of messed up on the african cultural representation and put fiction where there shouldn't have but apart from that it's a good story
@@ishxyzaak this thread makes me think I should watch it to have a real opinion.
That chonker giraffe, man, what an absolute unit. Gave me a good chortle
He chortled in his joy
Omg it's Jack Rackam!
Good lesson: We should be laughing at our arrogant elected officials to make them humble...
But prez chump won’t take the fkkn hint!
Free speech is the tool! I think that is the thing USA should be fighting for worldwide, instead of either you are with us or against us.
Factz
They’re too arrogant to be humbled
I Think this applies to businesmen and billionaires a little beter than even politicians. Wouldent mind if it was culturaly acceptable to shittalk them evertime they do a giant busines deal that destroys local retailers and such
Thank you for bringing a broader sense of history to the world. The world is so much more than Europe.
Undoubtedly sir!
Ironically there is genetic evidence that Northern San populations (living in modern Tanzania) has a significant european ancestry, and other related genetic studies in the bantu populations in that area suggests an important migration from southern europe and the middle east in sub-saharan africa about 5000 BC.
@@tetra4289 I'll check it out
@@tetra4289 thats from colonization lol from the bantu and the near easterners, the ethnic (not just linguistic-wise) san people who were more isolated from both of these expansions have the least genetic relations to anyone in the world, they're as genetically distinct from africans as they are to europeans, they're a whole different genetic cluster on their own
@@tetra4289 Have you ever heard of something called colonization? Also the ancestors of all Europeans are north Africans, in Morocco a skull fossil dating back to 300k years ago was discovered. North Africans and Europeans practically look exactly the same minus the blondes and Aryans.
Being south african is bad that this video has tought my more about my culture than school ever did
The ANC are trying to wipe out the SAN with support from the UN
As a Black American that was pretty big into Pan Africanism, I was sad to discover a lot of Africans know very little about their own cultures. Guys gotta step up your game!
i've head many things from things about the khoi from my blood relatives, sadly they all speak xhosa/afrikaans & little if any of the old tongue, granted they came to be my relatives through inter-marriage way-back-when.
@pokezee king-wolf So very limiting and such a narrow way of thinking.
Can we talk about how true this is? We hardly talk about our own cultures and this is really upsetting.
R.I.P San Warriors who died while developing there famous poison
@Cure4Living They didn't think they would ever need them
@@JustinKT ikr being one with nature
is good and all but its not the path to becoming powerful
and wealthy
Cerridian Empire thier goal was to live and survive. Not become powerful and wealthy.
@@cerridianempire1653 They are wealthy.
A strong connection to your family and the wider community the likes we never see in the "developed" world. A oneness and closeness to nature we can only dream of. An active lifestyle with more leisure time than most of the "developed" world. In a sense they are far wealthier than you or I will ever be.
@@taylorroos4414 now that I think about it yeah I guess they are
the San are one of my favorite cultures. I have always been fascinated by them. I hope that their culture, language and life style can survive, because it bothers me that so many unique, wonderful and great cultures are dying, being replaced by generic European/Western culture, language and life styles.
You mean bushman
I have lived in Botswana. Most of the Batswana are extremely racist to the San despite the fact that they all have a significant amount of San ancestry.
I always found that very funny. Even the Xhosas as well. I'm San by the way.
Wait can you on street recognise San ?????
@@ivobrkovic8072 yeah, they usually have high cheekbones and a generally lighter skin complexion
@@patrickgaabinelwe3933 strange I didn't know that
@@xkxkxixmdjknkcovixiskosid7282 I think its more of a cultural thing than a actual racial conflict.
I love the bringing down of ego. humility bragging
@Cat Egorical
I think it was just so the person wouldn't take themselves too seriously. Like, you would know if you caught a big animal, but if everyone insulted it, you would be aware that it's not about you, but about the equal prosperity of everyone.
@Cat Egorical I think it's because even if the insult isn't genuine, it still has an effect, because of the actual meaning of the insults, the way your group saying it would drill into your head humility. This is much the same as how people are taught manners; it just gets drilled in.
@Cat Egorical I don't think people insulting each other on a cultural level causes a society to die out. All forms of hunter-gatherer society have eventually died out to societies hungry for more resources.
Cat Egorical well you really never know if someone else means an insult or not, you just become desensitized eventually. Also dude I’d equivocate it to reverse bullying in the western mindset. Bullies usually have huge egos, and when they get flipped they get pretty quiet. Now imagine everyone just gets preemptively reverse bullied.
@Cat Egorical By spewing fake insults, they're avoiding giving out compliments. It's the lack of compliments and praise that help instill humility into the people rather than the insults themselves. This also programs the society into subconsciously linking accomplishments with insults rather than glory.
"...which ones were medicinal..."
*Joint is smoked*
;)
@IKtheVS Are you OK? Everyone else was watching anthropology.
Eric
stoners have entered the chat
He definitely knows what's good
Peace and love.
We still have some Khoisan communities in the western cape of south africa. They tend to be fishermen.
Also it very important to understand that just because they work 19 hours a week does not mean its an easy life. They have spent their lives learning how to survive and thrive in areas that would be considered a death sentence to others.
It's also not capable to grow large communities like that. That's why they are a minority even though they lived the longest in SA.
Thank you
Pretty sure those are just coloureds
Very large crossover between those groups with some Khoisan being very upset about it. @@Cherry-pu4mx
How tf do you recognize individual peoples footprints?! That’s honestly amazing.
Wow, the San people really have a rich culture, I never knew the hunter-gatherer life style could sound so appealing. It sounds almost like heaven on earth, working for 15 hours a week and having plenty of food. How wonderful. I really enjoyed this video. Always nice to learn about a culture I wasn't aware of before.
You never know the truth if you don’t search hard for it . Truth is not one thing, but rather possibilities created by humans .
Plus civilization government companies will block you from truth because of their greed to control , to make money .!
honestly the average person 50 thousand years ago was probably way happier, but i guess the grass is always greener on your neighbor's lawn
I'm from Namibia, I really appreciate your content
Thanks. Happy to hear someone close to the source enjoyed the video :D
Same here in Windhoek though :p
@@Alexander-pm3zx I went hunting out in Windport in 2015 Windheok was a very nice place and I remember buying rotisserie chicken (some bird) on the street that was really good. To this day my favorite meat is Zebra.
I've been stuying the San for years and this is one of the most comprehensive videos on the people, thank you so much for posting this!!
Are there any other good videos you'd recommend?
I hope the San outlasts our modern civilization. They seem to have the most wholesome social structure. They deserve to live on Earth more than us.
I am from Namibia. Thanks for making this video. It is really insightful and I must say I've learnt quite a lot from it. It's such a shame that we often look at the san people as "primitive". I feel bad about the way our government treats them and tries to manage them. I hope however that they'll be able to keep their traditional way of living and not let the outside world influence and destroy that. With all that is going on however that hope is quite bleak.
“The Gods must be crazy” (1980) was a movie about The bushman or San People. It was a comedy but not disrespectful to the bushman. Make sure you watch the incredible 1980 version there are chinese knockoffs with the same name floating around on TH-cam and people think it’s the original based in the comments in that video.
I watched that movie with my family. Had the best time ever.
One of the funniest film ever and a very underrated one.
@@SuperDravin To be honest I haven't even thought about that movie in ages! But after seeing this video about the Bushman the clicking talking reminded me about it. I'll have to look it up! I remember it all starts with a man throwing a Coke Bottle from a plane and the bushman find it and find inventive ways to use it. Finally it becomes a weapon and they in the end throw it off the edge of the earth!
@@Wallyworld30 yup.
I love that movie.
Listening to san music in the video: "hmm, ok. Its quite ... okay ...kinda... (rly trying hard here to say nothing bad)"
2 minutes later:
My brain is repeating the music and wants more. Its such a sweet beautiful sound where can i get it.
Yesss we need the san people on Spotify ❤️
I love how they use shame and ridicule to squash any ambitions of power. That's the best thing ever. It makes me think of that old saying from Huey Long. "Every man a king, no man wears a crown"
Another reason I would never buy diamonds.
Well, I suppose an artificial one is okay...
@Remember Decrius 20 AD diamonds are only to boost inferior ego tbh
Yeah. In my opinion buying a stone and thinking it somehow makes you special is a fool's way of thinking. I imagine it might seem like the answer for those who lack any real capacity to contribute meaningfully to society.
@Youssef Houaoui Wtf. What expenaive stone should i buy then to look *fresh* ?
92% of diamonds are used in industry. So you’ll only hurt companies that sell to gullible people. Not the actual trade unfortunately.
did he just make a "the sand people will return, and in greater numbers too" reference?
(San™ People)
Ice G these blaster shots. Too accurate for san people
I see what you did there Ice G
Ice G and everyone else in here: you geeks are my people! 😹😹😹
@@JourneyToTheCage
Luke - They dont really need to be all that accurate, uncle Ben. They use poison.
Kenobi - Poisoned blaster bolts?!? My word!! We need to get off this planet, with haste!
I mean...the star wars connection isnt coincidental.
After hearing about how they ridicule each other to keep social order, I really wanna go hang.
I want to take part in a tribal roast session
Just try picking up a female theses days at you local watering hole. There, saved you thousands in travel costs
@@QuantumPK y so bitter ?
@@QuantumPK what the heck does picking up females have to do with roast sessions
@@littledotdoodling nothing, Tiny
I remember watching all the "the gods must be crazy" movies as a kid. They were my favorite. I loved the humor and weirdness in the movie about bushmen. So by default I've always loved them and their coulture
(For those who don't know the gods must be crazy it's a old movie about a bushfamily that saw a coke bottle fall fall out of an air plane. Then the father of the family goes on a quest to get rid of the 'evil thing' because there was only one so it was causing conections. Runs into crazy white people on the way. Oh and also poachers. And soilders.)
I love the first one the most.
When he drives.
Or when the white guy is trying to explain that they shake their heads back and forth to signal yes
Same here
Love that movie!
The were very social and peacefull and that so early while the rest of the world were fighting and killing each other and the called them savage people how ironic
white people called us savages its not "they were called..." call it what it is Davy
@@PHlophe White people call other white people savages too like Barbarians were Germanic tribes, I don't why white people brought civilization too the world just for people to get but hurt over words smh
@@PHlophe hey not all whites are mean like me
The San ... arguably the most efficient and sustainable group. But dismissed as savages because they forgoed agricultural practices and more "sophisticated" social stratification.
Vincent Salamatino Idk about your country, but white people certainly didn’t bring civilization to mine lol. My country had culture, architecture, philosophy, engineering, a royal family, etc. way before europeans arrival
Huh. It's as I thought. Like always.
Asymmetry of power does *not* have to exist in a thriving human society.
Goodness, I hope they outlive this ridiculous country.
Anarcho-communism!
Not just _have_ to exist, but it!s better if it doesn’t exist, this has proven time and time again.
If you're US citizen, then decades of anti socialist propaganda made sure you'd accept asymmetry. Well, we can see in our society how the ego's of our hunters (sales guys) have gone rogue and even cut out the rest of society of their spoils, and how insane that is.
@Lagarto Verde Hell yes.
@Lagarto Verde I don't understand your question. Which ridiculous country? Did I call any country ridiculous?
Sorry, man. If I like and subscribe to this piddly channel immediately, certain individuals might get an inflated opinion of themselves. I will. Later. Maybe.
Dude the reason why we still work 40 hour weeks at this level of productivity is corporate greed and stagnant wages. Not our own greed.
Amazing they are living exactly how we evolved to live.
You are living how you evolved to live 🤦🏻♂️
@Saudi King Volintine Ander of Arabia ignore the idiot
@Saudi King Volintine Ander of Arabia You mean white people need less melanin
@@AFCA-vn9bl Any light persons (including albinos) living in areas with less sun. Since light people aren't all living in the Arctic or places without much sun (i.e. the conditions that brought about the mutation in favourable terms) it makes no sense to say they need less melanin. Most light people have to mimic it's protective quality with sun screens and such. Yet are still at greater risk for melanomas.
The question is also quite weird since light skin people (white or otherwise) don't have melanin in their skin (sometimes eyes). So the question of whether it's needed depends on environments we no longer live in or have generally compensated for with increasing technology that surrounds us with manufactured environments.
@@badnoisebebopblackoutnetwo3348 light skinned people DO have melanin in their skin and eyes, that's why southern Europeans are darker than northern Europeans,and technology didn't exist long enough to influence our evolution
Please a video about Kurdish, Assyrian or Coptic peoples ❤️.
They're on the way :)
😄
Hearing echoes of my father: _"We are aramaic!!! The original!! The world came from us, man!! Kes emek sharamuta!!"_
IKtheVS bruh
@@simonpeter5032 Who was your dad calling "Kos Omek Sharmmuta"?
I am Namibian/Bantu and its truly sad what my government has done/keeps doing these people.
A BIG high five to you for saying the click in 'Xhosa' correctly.
Coming from a Xhosa speaking person here.
I'm happy to have learnt more about the history of the San and my country, I want to dive into it even more. It's sad how they have been treated in the past by my ancestors and colonialists. Hopefully they can have the help and the freedoms they deserve.
Your ancestors were colonialists as much as the British and Boers were. The Bantu colonised all of central and Southern Africa they’re as foreign to that part of the world as mongols are to Europe
Is it possible, as related to the biblical passage concerning/of lot 'going into his daughters' as well as the initial effects and features as when two closely biological relatives produce offspring (mongolism), that this particular group of people are the evolutionary result of a people who had initially gone astray (mothers/fathers uncle's/aunts sleeping with biological children/nephews/nieces)? Being that the old and modern day scientist all now agree of the likelihood that Earth's man & woman originated in Africa, then could they represent an improved version of the past but now known, modern day asian/mongolian people of Asia & Mongolia? Can it be said that these Khoisan + 'bush people' evolved from a prior mutated form of the first man and woman?
It sometimes makes me ashamed to be a South African. I know I didn't do anything, but I feel that secondhand shame.
@@wr066 This is the most racist and insane thing I have ever read.
~3:08 small correction, there's actually one site from around 315,000-330,000 years ago where people often identified as anatomically modern humans have been found, so that pushes the date for our origin back by about a hundred thousand years.
They also found in Ain Boucherit in Algeria 2.4 million year old tools .
@@M.Ghilas That doesn't make a difference to the origins of anatomically modern humans, as our Australopithecine ancestors from that period and before were already making tools. There's no possibility of Homo sapiens sapiens being more than about 800,000 years old, as that's the earliest point when our ancestors could have split off from those of Neanderthals and Denisovans, given genetic evidence. Chances are that we aren't much older than 300,000 years old, as the Jebel Irhoud people (the ones from the site I mentioned before) have a lot of archaic features, making it likely that their last archaic ancestors weren't too many generations back.
But on what part of Africa anatomically modern humans emerged?
@@robto That's not known for sure. A recent DNA study suggests that the most recent common ancestors of all anatomically modern humans originated around what is now Botswana, but the reliability is a bit controversial. The site I mentioned before is in Morocco, and dates to around 100,000 years before the last common ancestors of all modern humans lived, but there's some debate about whether or not those people were truly anatomically modern, as they have some fairly archaic features. The common consensus seems to be that a "Pan African" origin - one where many populations of nearly modern humans migrating throughout Africa gradually converged into the Anatomically Modern through interbreeding with each other - is most plausible. Further findings may reveal the truth for certain, but for now, we can only make educated guesses.
@@SomasAcademy That makes the origin of anatomicaly modern humans rather complicated...
The best part is the control of egos in this society.
I knew first about San people from an awesome movie called "The Gods Must Be Crazy" It was fascinating and watching this video I kept remembering the movie. I love how you covered every aspect as always.
One of my favorites!!! Amazing film.
I loved learning about these people. They seem to be really smart when it comes to hunting and liveing off their land and they seem to be overall nice people, I think we can learn a few things from these people and I hope the best for them in the future to come. I love to learn about people around the world and their history and beliefs and how they overall live or used to live in the past, and I would love to know more about these people. ☺️
I heard of these bushmen from the WildFit program from Eric Edmeades. I want to get the full program and follow it to transform my body for a bodybuilding competition. 🙏
i love how Australia is accurate to real life
So I suppose the opening of "The Gods Must be Crazy" is quite accurate, then.
The actor in "The Gods Must be Crazy" was Herero if I remember correctly
@@redberet5064
The Bushman? N!xau.
@@budakbaongsiah
Turns out he's Juǀʼhoansi, but can speak herero
not really... the language the kids use is not a san language but khoekhoegowab .. which i speak fluently but thy sound the same .. but we cant understand them..
the content of this video reminded me of the thoreau quote: “Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.” and of course men live lives of quiet desperation.
"Hippity hippity, your land is my property"
That has to be ma favorite line in this video.
I didn't hear you mention anything about where most of us have heard of the San from, "The Gods Must be Crazy". A movie put out by the South African government to discredit the San.
Can you PLEASE source that "government propaganda" claim?
That movie was my first time hearing about these peoples.
I didn't think that they were cast in a bad light.
In fact, it made me start to question consumer culture
@@phredphlintstone6455 I agree with you. If it was truly supposed to be government propaganda they did a really bad job.
It's been a long while since I saw the movie. I think it was my first exposure to San people. They seemed sensible to me in comparison to our absurdity. It's awesome that the propaganda aim backfired. Karmic justice.
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Did anyone notice that Australia is upside down in 10:23 ?
...and flipped end for end.
@@poorplayer9249 so more "rotated" than "flipped" or "reversed".
Is this a Cogito "inside joke"?
Yes! I was wondering about that
I think there's certainly a lot to learn from the San. We probably shouldn't abandon our way of life but what they can teach us is to maybe slow down a bit. We definitely have the technology to maintain our current way of life in a much more sustainable way and if we just stop aiming for infinite GDP growth and start aiming for improving the welfare of everyone we can probably do a lot better. I think Solarpunk is probably something to look towards here, it doesn't give up our technology but it vastly restructures society to make it more sustainable and more about every individual. Post-Scarcity is not a technological goal it is a way of organizing society and we could achieve that. I also think that really what many of us want is not so much progress as it is change, we do like our constantly and rapidly changing society but we can probably achieve that without constantly growing economies.
Hmm. The "-punk" part of any imagined future is a denial of collectivism and an embrace of individualism ... something traditional societies disparage. Social democracy based on progressive taxes on the productive classes, which fund a safety net for the unproductive classes (who are bribed to be infertile) seems a close analog. We've got to keep innovating, though, so we can get off this planet before the next asteroid or supervolcano
@@secularmonk5176 Do you mind if I ask what you mean by "bribed to be infertile"? Because from what I know the poor typically have more kids, so the upper classes have cheap labor.
Two questions:
How did they traditionally handle sanitation in the desert (where did they get water?)
What kind of religions or rituals did they have (assuming some may have abandoned their traditional beliefs)?
They got there water from tubers which are kinda like giant moist potatoes as well as springs and water wholes there diet consisted mainly of fruits and wild berries accompanied by the meat of antelope birds and little reptiles.
@Jack Helrein how are they Hunter & gatherers when they eat only fruit ....are they hunting plants....they also don't live in the sandy part of the desert buddy??....
I was half-expecting to see a bit of footage from "The Gods Must Be Crazy." Yea, I'm old.
I am crying. This story is so amazing and so sad.
I have long felt that the San are not so primitive as depicted, since they use their advanced knowledge of their barren environment to survive! Fantastic video! I learned a lot!
It really breaks my heart to hear how European colonialism, and modern national neoliberal policies have destroyed the most amazing civilization in human history. I always thought that if the modern world collapsed, at least the Kalahari bushmen might be able to keep our species from going extinct, but now even that is an iffy prospect because someone just had to mess with perfection.
This video deserves a lot more views. Truly, great work on so many levels... history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, geopolitics, economics.
I really like this channel. And I really love this video! I'd support you on Patreon if I had more money.
"They soon came back, and in greater numbers." You just couldn't help yourself, could you? :-D
the force is strong with you
These are not the Khoi you're looking for... Move along.
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So I went a little insane researching and writing for this video. Even though it is my longest video yet I had to leave out so many things just to make the video less than a few hours long! But I really enjoyed learning about the San. One thing that I had to leave out was a discussion on the Marshall family, who went to go look for the San in the Kalahari in the middle of the 20th century. The two Marshall children John and Elizabeth went on to document the life of the San with such an incredible level of detail and empathy. You can tell from reading Elizabeth's "The Harmless People" and from watching all of John's documentaries that they really cared for the people they were studying and through their work the character of the San people really shines through. I highly recommend you check out their work.
Other things like how the San take care of their children, how they practice birth control, their religion, art, more detailed hunting and tracking techniques, their personal experiences in the military, and further details on the San's experiences dealing with and fighting against colonial/Bantu incursions, were all cut for time. But you can read about them further in the sources listed below. But now that this monster of a video is finally finished I'm off to go have a nice cup of tea... and maybe a pint or three.
This was excellent
Under-rated channel. You deserve more subscribers.
Thank you so much for this video, it feels like I’ve learned more about the San in under half an hour than I have in the four or so years spent having someone monotonously drone about the subject in school.
Question. Is the Aboriginal culture than the San (Bushmen) culture or not? I'm having a hard time finding this out.
Privacy_ Matters What do you mean?
0:50 *Snoop Dogg gets mentioned*
You had my curiosity, now you have my attention
This is honestly one of the best youtube videos ive ever watched, thank you so much
This ones a chonker 😂😂
Needs to eat less PANCAKES!
Bruh, no such thing 🙏🏻
I laughed at that too lmao
Wow. This is a great history lesson. As a Namibian, I just want to say thank you. 🇳🇦👍
Happy to hear you liked it
Namibia is a place i want to visit. I think it’s a great video too
Is it possible, as related to the biblical passage concerning/of lot 'going into his daughters' as well as the initial effects and features as when two closely biological relatives produce offspring (mongolism), that this particular group of people are the evolutionary result of a people who had initially gone astray (mothers/fathers uncle's/aunts sleeping with biological children/nephews/nieces)? Being that the old and modern day scientist all now agree of the likelihood that Earth's man & woman originated in Africa, then could they represent an improved version of the past but now known, modern day asian/mongolian people of Asia & Mongolia? Can it be said that these Khoisan + 'bush people' evolved from a prior mutated form of the first man and woman?
For those watching this video, if you feel bad and “wish you could change the past” just know that these egregious acts are still happening TO THIS DAY. If you want to be a part of positive change and help indigenous people all over the world from genocide and displacement, urge your countries governments to stop their illegal occupations, claims to land, and funding militia groups/puppet governments in these areas that are used to strip indigenous people of their land and natural resources.
Perhaps most importantly is to stop the development of companies like Bezos's monstrosity of the Amazon company being built on the Liesbeeck river in Cape Town which is claiming sacred sites and grazing land of the Khoisan people.
Unfortunately the construction that has already taken place and destroying the delicate ecosystem, is done in the name of capital gains for one person under the pretext that it's employment opportunities for a 1000 or so with no guarantee of it being long-term.
And so the ethnic cleansing continues, first by the despicable Dutch, English, Germans, Portuguese etc etc etc.( all from Europe) and now Bezos from God knows where he crawls from.
If you have any investment in pension schemes, government savings schemes, stocks or shares etc, it's also helpful to try and find out where that money is going? If it's being used to invest in weapons manufacture, environmentally-destructive industries, companies that are helping to destabilise conflict areas etc, you can join (or start) movements to divest from those areas.
So glad to see this quality of content coming out of Ireland. I studied anthropology in an Irish university and learn more from your videos than I did in school.
Serious, great video, very interesting subject. I specially liked that you didn't shy way the fact that most of the traditional way of life have died as a consequence of mordern african political instability and past european colonization, and they are now a reminescense of what they were. It is a bit sad, but knowledging us about their problems and what needs to be done is always important.
I hope the best for this amazing people.
2:56 The way your characters walk is so cute.
Farmers being more sinister than the Devil is the greatest thing I've learned on TH-cam.
Really fascinating topic! That part about San people serving in the South African Border War was total news to me. I have a feeling I'll learn more new interesting things from this collaboration than from all the previous ones.
I've always had an immense respect for the San peoples and am happy you did a video about them. I hope I can speak with someone from one of the groups some day and just listen to what they have to say. They have an amazingly rich history.
When speaking of agriculture around 16:00, a reminder to anyone watching, agriculture isn't just farming, it includes the rearing of animals. It's a common misnomer that agriculture refers to simply growing food and it absolutely does not and plays a big factor into the entire assessment about agriculture here. It seems that “farming” is used interchangeably with “agricultural” but these are COMPLETELY different things, particularly in the context used here. There should be a distinction to provide historical accuracy.
When people talk about agriculture and "Big Ag" and the problems with factory farming, although genuine farming plays a part, it is predominately the rearing of animals for food that produces the problems people speak of, such as in this portion of the video.
This is definitely one of your best ever vids! Very well done. Also, I appreciated the Star Wars reference.
San jazz is definitely my new favourite genre.
I really appreciate this video! I am South African and sadly this is the longest lesson I've ever received based upon the indigenous people than in my 16 years of education in the country. They focus more on Apartheid, white settlers and the Zulu kingdom
Is it possible, as related to the biblical passage concerning/of lot 'going into his daughters' as well as the initial effects and features as when two closely biological relatives produce offspring (mongolism), that this particular group of people are the evolutionary result of a people who had initially gone astray (mothers/fathers uncle's/aunts sleeping with biological children/nephews/nieces)? Being that the old and modern day scientist all now agree of the likelihood that Earth's man & woman originated in Africa, then could they represent an improved version of the past but now known, modern day asian/mongolian people of Asia & Mongolia? Can it be said that these Khoisan + 'bush people' evolved from a prior mutated form of the first man and woman?
@@wr066 oh for fuck's sake how many times are you gonna comment this on this video?
@@pillbobaggins2766 Seemingly, you are somewhat inspired by it; last I can remember, that comment was as old as Methuselah. How many times have you read it?
Rome: we are the greatest civilization!
The San: Ok buddy think what you’d like
The San Aren´t Civilization.
There was a long time throughout history where everyone from every land lived like this. Most people became domesticated, but some stayed cool.
Awesome coverage and quality work again 👏 Can’t wait for the docu on the Kurds !!
God damn this people are amazing. Europe should learn from them. They could survive anything.
this is by far my favourite history culture channel on youtube. Great videos homie!
It's really impressive to see them living in tandem with nature. This is what I consider wisdom. 🙏
I _LOVED_ this! Thank you for such a neat video!
I’m not sure which San tribe it is, but the San trance dance ritual music that they make is some of the most beautiful that I’ve ever heard.
Thank you for helping us to learn more about them with this video.
This is so incredibly cool! As a future anthropologist specializing (likely) in human evolution, I love learning about people like the San. To me, the poison arrowheads, aside from being genius, is reminiscent of persistence hunting, which humans all over the world have relied on for hundreds of thousands of years. The poison is just a safer more efficient way to do it, much like a Komodo dragon!
Ridiculing the hunter's catch is honestly the most wholesome thing
Thank you for acknowledging the genocide , it often isn’t taught at all in history
Beer. That's why we agriculture. To get all people wasted all the time you needed to develop the farming of the grains.
I've been planning to make a video on this topic for a long time.
I'm thinking it was because of animal husbandry. Cattle loves grass, we hunted cattle, what's the best way to keep them around?? Feed them the grass you don't eat. The fact that we started eating grasses maybe 10000 years ago would suggest this. A wheat and barley mash accidentally left out for some time could be how we discovered beer. Anyway, the fact might be that over thousands of years, cattle and other ungulates probably influenced what grasses we ate by selectively eating the best ones and dropping "seeds" everywhere.
This is one of the best videos I have seen on the topic! Excellent perspective and good information that is well studied. Well done!
The seamless transition from topic to sponsor is quite impressive. Cuddos. Enjoyed learning about a neighbouring culture.
Bro, we can learn so much from them, they are as 'original' as original can get... 'raw' humans in a 'raw' environment, and they demystify so much of what we consider just part of "human nature" like greed and the desire of material wealth being the main motivators of life or hierarchy or pride.
San is the original and accepted name, it means gather in Khoekhoegowab (khoekhoelanguage)
Bushmen is a Foriegn name given by the British the name explains for itself.
The amount of work you put into these videos is awesome, I'm learning HEAPS
This is such an underrated channel
Thx for mentioning overproduction 👏
This video has taught me more about my ancestors than any of my family members have or than what I have been taught in school
If this piques anyone's interest about the San I highly recommend giving James Suzman's (5:00)book a read! Its fascinating, going into the history of the Portuguese, Dutch and German settlers arriving as well as the relations with other ethnic groups in the region through time.
"Affluence Without Abundance" - James Suzman
This was one of the most interesting videos I have watched recently.
This was a very informative and well made video. Thank you!
The story of Cain and Abel is believed to be, at its root, about the agricultural revolution--about agriculture supplanting nomadic herding. The story of the San interestingly recapitulates this, albeit with hunter/gatherers in place of herders, and again raises the question: Why in the world would any god view Abel's contribution more favorably, and reject Cain's? It's a reminder that history is written by whomever ends up dominant, and is always skewed to favor their viewpoint.
"Chonker" 😂 also love the speedo. Enjoy your humor, but really appreciate your content, ty! I am sad about how greed has created such treatment of fellow humans, and am so glad to learn about and find appreciation for other cultures, and am grateful for your hard work in educating us. 💙💚💛💜
One thing I remember about them is there wonderful nice cheekbones - oh and they seem like a nice and happy bunch of people.
Thank you for the upload