Lorna Marshall, who conducted six expeditions to the Kalahari for the purpose of studying the San, says that as the dance intensifies, the n/um, or energy, is activated in the bodies of those who heal (most are men).
Lorna Marshall, mother of Elizabeth, conducted six expeditions to the Kalahari in the 19050s for the purpose of studying the San. She wrote that as the dance intensified, the n/um, or energy, was thought to be activated in the bodies of those who heal (most were men).