Alan Barnard

Bushmen

Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers and Their Descendants

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 164mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781108406871
• ISBN-10: 1108406874
• Artikelnr.: 56033099

Autorenporträt

Alan Barnard is Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa in the University of Edinburgh. He has over 40 years' experience of field research with Bushmen or San in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. His publications include Language in Prehistory (Cambridge, 2016), Genesis of Symbolic Thought (Cambridge, 2012) and Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Bushmen': unity and diversity
2. The politics of indigeneity
3. How far back can we go?
4. Discovery and destruction of the /Xam
5. The !Xoõ and their neighbours
6. G/wi, G//ana and the central Kalahari
7. Naro: 'Central', 'Northern' or unique?
8. Ju/'hoansi or !Kung: classic San
9. Hai//om: Khoekhoe-speaking San
10. Bushmen of the Okavango
11. Sharing the land with others
12. Conclusions.