Thinking Threads

Dissolving Borders | Crafting Solutions

Chris Low
Scholar | Curator | Exhibition Designer | Community Development
Founding Director !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre, South Africa

As an anthropologist I ask, “what does it means to be human?”

As an archaeologist and historian, I span different places and different times – with a key focus on the Khoekhoe and San (Bushmen) of southern Africa.

As a concerned participant of Earth I gear my initiatives to positive outcomes.

In my work with recent hunter-gatherers I strive for social justice by instigating projects that change mindsets and educate, to bring new opportunities. As a scholar I ask what we can learn from people whose subsistence strategy and prominently entangled relationships in nature, inform accounts of human origins and human possibilities.

CONTACT: chris@thinkingthreads.com

Healing

Indigenous healing

I have spent 25 years working with KhoeSan on issues of health and healing.

In these contexts you cannot understand healing without immersing yourself in the world of spirit.

Heritage

From educational materials to folklore, to delivery of a world class heritage centre.

Since 2013 much of my focus has been on setting up and running !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre (see below).

In 2021 Quiver Tree Press published our stunning !Khwa ttu book. It is a combination of information about !Khwa ttu, mixed in with what I hope are some gems you won’t find anywhere else, laid out in a compelling fashion.. I particularly love the G||ana-Gui tracking vocabulary in the back!

Take a look with this Flipbook link.

Human / Environmental Relationships

Generating ideas and debate to address the big questions.

To give a taste of KhoeSan relationships with the natural world, have a listen to Joram |Useb, Gakemotho Satau and Chris Low, featured in a BBC Radio 4 programme (1/8/2018), Living with Nature.

!Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre

Since 2009 Thinking Threads has networked scholars working with southern African Khoekhoe and Bushmen / San peoples.

Thinking Threads makes research valuable by promoting sharing and undertaking initiatives to support communities.

Since 2014 Thinking Threads has focussed on delivering an indigenous co-curated heritage centre for the San.

The centre opened in Sept 2018. In 2019 Dr Chris Low, the founder of Thinking Threads was appointed !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre Museum Director.