Anthropology and the Bushman / Alan Barnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnard, Alan (Alan J.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

San (African people).

Ethnology--Fieldwork--Kalahari Desert.

Ethnology.

Anthropology in popular culture--Kalahari Desert.

Anthropology in popular culture.

Kalahari Desert--Social life and customs.

Kalahari Desert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 179 pages) : digital PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

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 on 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:

"First published in 2007 by Berg Publishers."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612473616

9781003084594

OCLC:

560526388

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_390770