The American rock band Phish sometimes performs a song called "Kung" during their live performances. [18] Ivy Dickens talks about the ǃKung people in Season 4 of Gossip Girl. Carl Sagan draws on the …

The ǃKung are one of the San peoples who live mostly on the western edge of the Kalahari desert, Ovamboland (northern Namibia and southern Angola), and Botswana. The names ǃKung (ǃXun) and …

Nomadic women of the !Kung, a group of the San people of southern Africa, use no contraceptives but have a mean interval between births of 44 months and an average of four or five deliveries in a fertile …

The meaning of KUNG is a member of a people of southern Africa —usually preceded in writing by !.

Unlike many other hunter-gatherer tribes, the !Kung do not have a chief or headman in a position of power over the other members. They practice a more egalitarian social structure, where all members …

The Kung people, also known as the ǃXun or Ju, are an indigenous group of the San peoples, residing primarily on the western edge of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. Their traditional territories …

The exclamation point in !Kung symbolizes a similar click, but with the front part of the blade of the tongue against the palate close to the alveolar ridge. It is thus called a postalveolar click.

Today the !Kung live mainly in Namibia and Botswana, incorporated into global economic networks. In Namibia, the !Kung participated as soldiers in the Namibian war for independence, drastically …

Kung turned to local Bantu chiefs for arbi tration. In the process they sacrificed autonomy and, like other San groups, increased their reliance on, and incor poration into, Bantu society.

ǃKung / ˈkʊŋ / [2][3] KUUNG (ǃXun), also known as Ju (/ ˈdʒuː / JOO), is a dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three …