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The hunter-gatherers of southern Africa known as 'Bushmen' or 'San' are not one single ethnic group, but several. They speak a diverse variety of languages, and have many different settlement patterns, kinship systems and economic practices. The fact that we think of them as a unity is not as strange as it may seem, for they share a common origin: they are an original hunter-gatherer population of southern Africa with a history of many thousands of years on the subcontinent. Drawing on his four decades of field research in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, Alan Barnard provides a detailed account of Bushmen or San, covering ethnography, archaeology, folklore, religious studies and rock-art studies as well as several other fields. Its wide coverage includes social development and politics, both historically and in the present day, helping us to reconstruct both human prehistory and a better understanding of ourselves.

San (African people) --- Ethnology --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Khoisan (African people)

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This richly illustrated book documents San material culture through the words of four San elders in conversation with two academics. Their discussion, over seven days, of the world's largest collection of San artefacts provides a novel perspective that enriches scholarly knowledge and brings past and present San ways of life vividly alive.

Material culture. --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- San (African people) --- Material culture --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Ethnology --- Khoisan (African people)

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#SBIB:316.7C312 --- #SBIB:35H436 --- Cultuurbeleid: nationaal --- Beleidssectoren: welzijn, volksgezondheid en cultuur --- Theses --- San (African people) --- Social conditions. --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Ethnology --- Khoisan (African people) --- Social conditions --- Kalahari Desert

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Dorothea Bleek (1873-1948) devoted her life to completing the 'bushman researches' that her father and aunt had begun in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. This research was partly a labour of familial loyalty to Wilhelm, the acclaimed linguist and language scholar of nineteenth-century Germany and later of the Cape Colony, and to Lucy Lloyd, a self-taught linguist and scholar of bushman languages and folklore; but it was also an expression of Dorothea's commitment to a particular kind of scholarship and an intellectual milieu that saw her spending her entire adult life in the study of the people she called'bushmen'. How has history treated Dorothea Bleek? Has she been recognised as a scholar in her own right, or as someone who merely followed in the footsteps of her famous father and aunt? Was she an adventurer, a woman who travelled across southern Africa driven by intellectual curiosity to learn all she could about the bushmen? Or was she conservative, a researcher who belittled the people she studied and dismissed them as lazy and improvident? These are some of the questions with which Jill Weintroub starts her thoughtful biography of Dorothea Bleek. The book examines Dorothea Bleek's life story and family legacy, her rock art research and her fieldwork in southern Africa, and, in light of these, evaluates her scholarship and contribution to the history of ideas in South Africa. The compelling and surprising narrative reveals an intellectual inheritance intertwined with the story of a woman's life, and argues that Dorothea's life work - her study of the bushmen - was also a sometimes surprising emotional quest.

Women ethnologists --- Art, San --- San (African people) --- Art, San (African people) --- San art --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Ethnology --- Khoisan (African people) --- Ethnologists --- Women social scientists --- Research --- Bleek, D. F. --- Bleek, Dorothea Frances,

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San (African people) --- History --- Social life and customs --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Ethnology --- Khoisan (African people) --- San (African people) - Africa, Southern - History --- San (African people) - Africa, Southern - Social life and customs --- San (African people) - Botswana