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1. Bushmen of Southern Africa (Indigenous
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2. The Ju/'hoan San of Nyae Nyae
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3. Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography
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4. In Search of the San
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5. The Inconvenient Indigenous: Remote
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6. Unconquerable Spirit: George Stow's
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7. Structure, Meaning and Ritual
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8. Bushman Art: Zeitgenýssische
9. My Heart Stands in the Hill
 
10. Images of Power: Images of San
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11. The Bushmen of Southern Africa:
 
12. San Visions and Values
 
13. The yellow and dark-skinned people
14. Miscast: Negotiating the Presence
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15. Why Ostriches Don't Fly and Other
16. The Broken String: The Last Words
 
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17. Fragile Heritage
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18. The First Bushman's Path: Stories,
 
19. Rock Paintings Natal (Ukhahlamba)

1. Bushmen of Southern Africa (Indigenous Peoples)
by Galadriel Findlay Watson
Library Binding: 32 Pages (2004-06)
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Asin: 1590362225
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2. The Ju/'hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence: Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa
by Megan Biesele, Robert K. Hitchcock
Hardcover: 308 Pages (2010-10-15)
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Asin: 1845457544
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The Ju/'hoan San, or Ju/'hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this group in the writings of Richard Lee, Lorna Marshall, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and films by John Marshall includes extensive information on their traditional ways of life, this book continues the story as it has unfolded since 1990. PeopledA" with accounts of and from contemporary Ju/'hoan people, the book gives newly-literate Ju/'hoansi the chance to address the world with their own voices. In doing so, the images and myths of the Ju/'hoan and other San (previously called BushmenA") as either noble savages or helpless victims are discredited. This important book demonstrates the responsiveness of current anthropological advocacy to the aspirations of one of the best-known indigenous societies. ... Read more


3. Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry)
by Keyan G. Tomaselli
Paperback: 190 Pages (2007-04-16)
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Asin: 0759109516
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Writing in the San/d details experiences and encounters with First People's (_Bushmen_) living in the Kalahari Desert (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa) (1995-2004), and a Khoi (1984) community in the eastern Cape, South Africa. ... Read more


4. In Search of the San
by Paul Weinberg
Paperback: 80 Pages (2004-06-30)
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Asin: 0620212314
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5. The Inconvenient Indigenous: Remote Area Development in Botswana, Donor Assistance and the First People of the Kalahari
by Sidsel Saugestad
Paperback: 230 Pages (2001-02)
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Asin: 9171064753
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The book deals with the relationship between the government of Botswana and its indigenous minority, known as Bushmen, San, Basarwa, or more recently N/oakwe, and tries to understand why the San people remain a marginalized minority in a country that since independence in 1966 has committed itself to a democratic and non-racial agenda.While there have been dozens of books published on the ethnography of the San, this is the first book that places them in the comparative context of indigenous peoples’ struggle for recognition. An in-depth documentation and analysis is given of a series of events in 1992 and 1993 that were crucial in establishing San indigenous organizations and identities. ... Read more


6. Unconquerable Spirit: George Stow's History Paintings of the San
by Pippa Skotnes
Hardcover: 216 Pages (2009-01-13)
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Asin: 0821418696
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George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts—poet, historian, ethnographer, artist, cartographer, and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the caves and shelters of the South African interior. Enchanted and absorbed by them, Stow set out to create a record of this creative work of the people who had tracked and marked the South African landscape decades and centuries before him.

Unconquerable Spirit reveals the scope and the beauty of his labors. Stow’s paintings are more than just copies of what he found on the rocks. They are interpretations of the art of the San, informed by his own understanding of a particularly turbulent time in South African history and his sense of the tragic demise of the San way of life. This book celebrates his pioneering achievement and reminds us, too, of the richness of the imaginative universe of the San. 
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7. Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San (The Khoisan Heritage Series)
by Roger Hewitt
Paperback: 256 Pages (2008-08-31)
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Asin: 1868144704
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8. Bushman Art: Zeitgenýssische Kunstaus dem sýdlichen Afrika / Contemporary Art from Southern Africa
by Pippa Skotnes, Ulrich Krempel, WilLemien le Roux, Andreas Sagner
Hardcover: 152 Pages (2002-09-01)
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Asin: 3897901765
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Bushman Art is the title of a book that provides a comprehensive introduction to the variety and independent character of the arts of the San communities (also known as bushmen) living in southern Africa. This art is sold in galleries throughout Europe and the US.After only a few years, specific support for promising artists led to the creation of a lively art scene. By now the prints and oil paintings generated under the auspices of the cultural project 'Schmidtsdrift/South Africa', regularly find their way into international galleries and collections.To lessen the plight of the San, who had been driven from their traditional hunting and living areas in Southern Africa, the Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Protestant Development Service) set up all-embracing programs to provide the San with new economic, social and cultural opportunities.Text in English and German ... Read more


9. My Heart Stands in the Hill
by Janette Deacon, Craig Foster
Hardcover: 208 Pages (2005-11-10)
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Isbn: 1770071253
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There are remote parts of this country that seem untouched since the time Bushmen walked and hunted and danced there. There are archives in Cape Town with thousands of pages of Bushman lore, transcribed painstakingly by language specialists of the 1800s. There’s an ever-expanding audience of readers hungry for the wisdom represented by our First Peoples. My Heart Stands in the Hill represents the tragically intertwined journeys of some of these First Peoples and European settlers, the fascinating spiritual travels of /Xam (medicine men) and (rock artists), and the pilgrimage of a modern archaeologist and filmmaker who symbolically return the image of these early South Africans to the landscape that was their home.

Craig Foster and Janette Deacon locate significant places described by these people and find rock engravings that record ancient shamanistic experiences connected with rainmaking and other rituals. The viewer/reader is transported to the landscapes through powerful images of the engravings in their setting. Photographs of the /Xam people themselves are brought back to the landscape by projecting the portraits onto the land. ... Read more


10. Images of Power: Images of San Rock Art
by J.David Lewis-Williams, Thomas Dowson
 Hardcover: 196 Pages

Isbn: 1868725510
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This text draws on records of San beliefs which were recorded verbatim during the 1870s, as well as on research done with the living Kalahari San, to reveal the true meaning of San rock art. Essentially the work of medicine people, or shamans, these pieces of art depict trance visions and symbols of supernatural potency. The records of San beliefs - coupled with neuropsychological research on trance states - have provided an understanding of such issues as the strange relationships between human beings and animals, and puzzling geometric patterns. The explanations are set alongside detailed copies of rock paintings and engravings. ... Read more


11. The Bushmen of Southern Africa: A Foraging Society in Transition
by Andy Smith, Candy Malherbe, Mathias Guenther
Paperback: 112 Pages (2000-07)
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Asin: 0864864191
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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This work introduces the long history and current condition of the hunting people of southern Africa. It attempts to place the modern San in historical context and show how they have continually adapted to outside pressures. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Southern African archaeology comes alive
All too often the Bushmen (otherwise known as the San) have been portrayed in school textbooks and in the minds of the general public as "living fossils" whose ways of life have remained the same throughout the ages. Associate-Professor Smith et al. demolish the myth and present a vivid picture of Bushmen social and economic dynamics down through the ages, as well as the interaction with incoming cultural groupings and the effects thereof. Anyone who is interested in the remarkable history, both past and contemporary, of the Bushmen will find this book an invaluable addition to their library. ... Read more


12. San Visions and Values
by Charles Joseph Noel Smith
 Paperback: 232 Pages (2001-05)

Isbn: 0954086007
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13. The yellow and dark-skinned people of Africa south of the Zambesi;: A description of the Bushmen, the Hottentots, and particularly of the Bantu,
by George McCall Theal
 Unknown Binding: 397 Pages (1910)

Asin: B00087FE6K
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14. Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen
Paperback: 383 Pages (1998-01)
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Isbn: 0799216526
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In this book, eminent scholars explore the term 'Bushmen' and the relationships that gave rise to it, from the perspectives of anthropology, archaeology, comparative religion, literary studies, art history and musicology. Topics as diverse as trophy heads and museums, to the destruction of the Cape San, and appraisals of 19th-century photographic practices are examined. A parallel text runs thoroughout the book and provides a counter narrative to the central discourses. The book is richly illustrated with previously unpublished photographs and documents from many archives and museums. ... Read more


15. Why Ostriches Don't Fly and Other Tales from the African Bush:
by Irene Lewis
Hardcover: 105 Pages (1997-01-15)
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Asin: 1563084023
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Here is a portrait of one of the world's oldest and most remarkable cultures. The group's history, nomadic way of life, beliefs, and customs are explored through 15 traditional tales written in poetic verse and juxtaposed with commentary on the challenges this group faces today. ... Read more


16. The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People
by Neil Bennun
Hardcover: 432 Pages (2004-06-03)
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Isbn: 0670912506
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The Xam people were a South African tribe who lived in the scrubland and communicated in a distinct click language. During the nineteenth century they were labelled as sub-human and hunted as animals by the Boers and the British. In 1870's Cape Town, a German philologist, Wilhelm Bleek, and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, befriended some Xam bushmen and gradually began to document their language, resulting in an extraordinary archive of material. This is the story of Wilhelm and Lucy and of the discovered Xam culture of beautiful rock art and powerful fables. The fables will run throughout the book. ... Read more


17. Fragile Heritage
by David Lewis-Williams, Geoffrey Blundell
 Paperback: 120 Pages (1998-01-01)
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Asin: 1868143325
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18. The First Bushman's Path: Stories, Songs and Testimonies of the /Xam of the North Cape
by Alan James
Paperback: 269 Pages (2002-03)
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Asin: 0869809911
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19. Rock Paintings Natal (Ukhahlamba)
by J. David Lewis-Williams
 Paperback: 58 Pages (1992-12)
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Isbn: 0869808699
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