The Trance Dance of !Kung Bushmen

Caroline Horowitz

From the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, the click-speaking !Kung Bushmen are one of the last groups of people in the world to maintain a subsistence way of life. !Kung Bushmen are most well known for their trance dance. They use this trance dance in order to cure and heal those who are suffering. Bushmen medicine is put into the body through the back-bone, and then the dancing and singing begins in order to go into the trance.