- List of Illustrations*
- Foreword by Richard B. Lee
- Acknowledgments
- Kung Who Speak in This Book
- 1. Starting Points
- 2. Kung Hunter-Gatherers
- 3. The Kung Approach to Healing
- 4. At a Healing Dance
- 5. Kinachau, a Traditional Healer
- 6. “The Death That Kills Us All”
- 7. Education for Healing
- 8. Career of the Healer
- 9. Female Perspectives
- 10. Toma Zho, a Healer in Transition
- 11. The Tradition of Sharing
- 12. Kau Dwa, a Strong Healer
- 13. Wa Na, a Healer among Healers
- 14. Psychological and Spiritual Growth
- 15. The Challenge of Change
- 16. A Final Meeting with Kinachau
- 17. “Tell Our Story to Your People”
- Orthography
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Illustrations
- Wa Na in Kia
- Dobe area in the Kalahari Desert
- Family at the morning meal
- Women enjoying each other’s company
- Healing dance at dawn
- Kinachau being worked on in kia
- Kinachau
- Kau Dwa healing
- Helping a healer regulate boiling num
- An aspiring healer
- Bau falling in kia
- Toma Zho
- After a night of dance
- Kau Dwa
- Wa Na
- Experiencing kia
- Self-portraits of Toma Zho, Wi, Kinachau, and others
- Kau Dwa healing a pregnant Herero
- Kinachau studying the root
- Young girls singing