Bushmen

Cultural  

1. The nomadic hunting and gathering peoples of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. (See hunting and gathering societies and nomadism.)

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Example Sentences

But she soon turned her attention to music, learning piano, bass guitar and drums; and making occasional appearances with her dad's band, Urban Bushmen, as a singer.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2021

He said states shouldn’t be forced to redefine “a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2020

Sacks thought of the people who, thousands of years ago, had painted it: the so-called Bushmen, whose descendants, during the colonial era, were driven into the Kalahari Desert and often killed.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

Van der Post was the daughter of the explorer and conservationist Laurens van der Post, best known for celebrating the ascetic lives of African Bushmen.

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2018

Outside Windhoek, the last of the formerly widespread Kalahari Bushmen were struggling for survival.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond