Anthropology and the bushman / Alan Barnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnard, Alan (Alan J.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

San (African people)--Kalahari Desert--Social life and customs.

San (African people).

Ethnology--Fieldwork--Kalahari Desert.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Anthropology in popular culture--Kalahari Desert.

Anthropology in popular culture.

Manners and customs.

Kalahari Desert--Social life and customs.

Kalahari Desert.

Physical Description:

x, 179 pages : map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Summary:

'The Bushman' is a perennial but changing image. The transformation of that image is important. It symbolizes the perception of Bushman or San society, of the ideas and values of ethnographers who have worked with Bushman peoples, and those of other anthropologists who use this work.

Anthropology and the Bushman covers early travellers and settlers, classic nineteenth and twentieth-century ethnographers, North American and Japanese ecological traditions, the approaches of African ethnographers, and recent work on advocacy and social development. It reveals the impact of Bushman studies an anthropology and on the public.

The book highlights how Bushman or San ethnography has contributed to anthropological controversy, for example in the debates on the degree of incorporation of San society within the wider political economy, and on the validity of the case for 'indigenous rights' as a special kind of human rights. Examining the changing image of the Bushman, Barnard provides a new contribution to an established anthropology debate.

Contents:

Introduction

From early encounters to early anthropology

Victorian visions of the bushman

Beckoning of the Kalahari

Amateurs and cultural ecologists

An original affluent society?

The return of myth and symbol

Kalahari revisionism and portrayals of contact

Advocacy, development and partnership

Representations and self-representations

Reflections and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-170) and index.

ISBN:

9781845204280

184520428X

9781845204297

1845204298

OCLC:

77116886

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