The !Kung San tribe is located in isolated areas of Botswana, Angola, and Namibia in Southern Africa located near the Kalahari Desert. The !Kung people refer to themselves as the Zhun/twasi, which means “the real people.” When research was first done on the !Kung, it was done by anthropologists from Harvard during the 1960’s. These anthropologists did a long-term study on their daily life. When research was done, the anthropologists described the !Kung as …showed first 75 words of 855 total…

…showed last 75 words of 855 total…village life, with cultivated gardens, herds of goats, and permanent housing. This all made it difficult for the !Kung not to change into the apparent easier way of life. Sooner or later, the !Kung succumbed to these changes and began to use the concept of wages for labor and role models from the outside world. There are still a few left that maintain the traditional !Kung lifestyle, but for the most part, change was inevitable.