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Anthropology and the bushman / / Alan Barnard



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Autore: Barnard Alan (Alan J.) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Anthropology and the bushman / / Alan Barnard Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Berg, , [2007]
©2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 179 pages)
Disciplina: 305.8961
Soggetto topico: San (African people) - Kalahari Desert - Social life and customs
Ethnology - Fieldwork - Kalahari Desert
Anthropology in popular culture - Kalahari Desert
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-170) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Anthropology and the Bushman  Visualizza cluster
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910719999503321
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