Bushmen

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-108-41826-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnard, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Barnard, Alan
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).