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Eating Christmas in the Kalahari - SUNY Morrisville
1 Article 4 Eating Christmas inthe KalahariRichard Borshay LeeThe !Kung Bushmen s knowledge ofChristmas is thirdhand. The LondonMissionary Society brought the holidayto the southern Tswana tribes in the earlynineteenth century. Later, native cate-chists spread the idea far and wideamong the Bantu-speaking pastoralists,even in the remotest corners of the Kala-hari Desert. The Bushmen s idea of theChristmas story, stripped to its essen-tials, is praise the birth of white man sgod-chief ; what keeps their interest inthe holiday high is the Tswana-Hererocustom of slaughtering an ox for hisBushmen neighbors as an annual good-will gesture.
Christmas day. The next morning word spread among the people that the big solid black one was the ox chosen by / ontah (my Bushman name; it means, roughly, “whitey”) for the Christmas feast. That afternoon I received the first delegation. Ben!a, an outspoken sixty-year-old mother of five, came to the point slowly. “Where were you planning ...
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