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	<h3>!Khure Africa project logo:<br>“The porcupine story from the San (bushman) peoples of South Africa”</h3>		<h3>!Khure Africa project logo:<br>“The porcupine story from the San (bushman) peoples of South Africa”</h3>
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	<p>The story of the waiting for the porcupine is an old story told to the San children about how to feed themselves if they were ever orphaned. A San informant, Dia!kwain, related to ethnographers Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd in 1875 how his father and mother instructed their children to get food and to survive intruders; it was by way of sitting outside a porcupine hole; wait very patiently until it appears and then capture it , and so not starve. But waiting for the porcupine required infinite patience.</p>		<p>The story of the waiting for the porcupine is an old story told to the San children about how to feed themselves if they were ever orphaned. A San informant, Dia!kwain, related to ethnographers Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd in 1875 how his father and mother instructed their children to get food and to survive intruders; it was by way of sitting outside a porcupine hole; wait very patiently until it appears and then capture it , and so not starve. But waiting for the porcupine required infinite patience.</p>

Emmelyne at 13:55, 4 June 2009

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	<em>* /xam San idea, adapted from P. Skotnes and M. Fleishman, A story is the wind. Llarec Series in Visual History, Cape Town, 2002.</em>		<em>* /xam San idea, adapted from P. Skotnes and M. Fleishman, A story is the wind. Llarec Series in Visual History, Cape Town, 2002.</em>
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		+	<p>The story of the waiting for the porcupine is an old story told to the San children about how to feed themselves if they were ever orphaned. A San informant, Dia!kwain, related to ethnographers Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd in 1875 how his father and mother instructed their children to get food and to survive intruders; it was by way of sitting outside a porcupine hole; wait very patiently until it appears and then capture it , and so not starve. But waiting for the porcupine required infinite patience.</p>

Emmelyne at 13:52, 4 June 2009

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	The /xam San peoples believed that if you listen carefully to the wind, stories of the people and the land would reveal themselves: “the story is the wind, the wind is the story”. The /xam had no word for a large region such as southern Africa, our study area; we therefore add the word Africa to give the flavour of a more regional wind that must have embedded in it the story of the Earth.		The /xam San peoples believed that if you listen carefully to the wind, stories of the people and the land would reveal themselves: “the story is the wind, the wind is the story”. The /xam had no word for a large region such as southern Africa, our study area; we therefore add the word Africa to give the flavour of a more regional wind that must have embedded in it the story of the Earth.

Emmelyne at 13:51, 4 June 2009

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-	<p>The /xam San peoples believed that if you listen carefully to the wind, stories of the people and the land would reveal themselves: “the story is the wind, the wind is the story”. The /xam had no word for a large region such as southern Africa, our study area; we therefore add the word Africa to give the flavour of a more regional wind that must have embedded in it the story of the Earth.	+	<p>
-		+	The /xam San peoples believed that if you listen carefully to the wind, stories of the people and the land would reveal themselves: “the story is the wind, the wind is the story”. The /xam had no word for a large region such as southern Africa, our study area; we therefore add the word Africa to give the flavour of a more regional wind that must have embedded in it the story of the Earth.
-	* <em>/xam San idea, adapted from P. Skotnes and M. Fleishman, A story is the wind. Llarec Series in Visual History, Cape Town, 2002.</em>	+	<br><br>
		+	<em>* /xam San idea, adapted from P. Skotnes and M. Fleishman, A story is the wind. Llarec Series in Visual History, Cape Town, 2002.</em>
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<h2>Background and history</h2>

<h3>Significance behind the project name:
!Khure Africa - The Story is the African Wind *</3>
<p>The /xam San peoples believed that if you listen carefully to the wind, stories of the people and the land would reveal themselves: “the story is the wind, the wind is the story”. The /xam had no word for a large region such as southern Africa, our study area; we therefore add the word Africa to give the flavour of a more regional wind that must have embedded in it the story of the Earth.

* <em>/xam San idea, adapted from P. Skotnes and M. Fleishman, A story is the wind. Llarec Series in Visual History, Cape Town, 2002.</em>
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