<p> . . . a first-rate piece of scholarship . . . an invaluable summary and commentary on the multilingual literature on [Bushman] people. --Choice<br /><br />The trickster and trance dancer are the guides through Bushman (or San) religion a world of ambiguity and contradiction and of enchantment. The two figures who in Bushman belief are symbolically equivalent and mystically linked embody these antistructural traits.</p>