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older members of their families and group in their own everyday environment. Some of these older people are greatly respected as healers who pass on their art orally and treat above all psychological disorders, for instance, by the laying on of hands or by inducing different states of consciousness in people. Others assume leading positions in the social life of their community; their memories are important, in order to
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understand the political process in which the San have become citizens of the modern state of Namibia.
This comprehensive project is headed by Megan Biesele. She is director of the Kalahari Peoples' Fund (KPF). Megan Biesele is an anthropologist and ethnographer. For 39 years now her work has been devoted to Ju/'hoan (Bushmen) and Khoisan their language, the so-called click-language spoken in the north east of
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