Robert Gordon

The Bushman Myth

The Making Of A Namibian Underclass

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Produktbeschreibung

The revised, updated version of this book includes an analysis of the sweeping political changes in South Africa since its original publcation in 1992. Other new material covers more theoretical issues and contemporary developments in scholarship, including a reconsideration of the film ?The Gods Must Be Crazy?; a discussion of ?expos thnography? and its attendant political/moral positioning; and an examination of the political situation in Namibia, with a close study of the near collapse of the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780367096304
• ISBN-10: 0367096307
• Artikelnr.: 57382678

Inhaltsangabe

The Bushmen: A Merger of Fantasy and Nightmare Whats In A Name?
Locating the Bushmen
Bushman Copper and Autonomy
The Incorporation of Bushmen into the World System
Classifying Bushmen: Itinerant Scientists The Colonial Presence
The Imposition of the Colonial State
The Bushman Plague of 1911
From Policy to Practice
Bushman Hunts and Bushman Gangs The Sacred Trust
South African Rapprochement
Laboring Legitimacy
Beyond the Police Zone: Disrupting the Labor Supply
Extending Administrative Control: Bushmen Reserved
Reaction and Counterreaction
Bushmen Tamed: Life on the Farm
Academics on the Attack: Ethnological Influence on Bushman Policy Bushmen Iconified
Creating Bushmanland: Anthropology Triumphant?
Bushmen Obscured: Farms, Parks, and Reserves
Bushmanland Fabricated
Denouement: Captives of the Image of Wild Bushmen Have We Met The Enemy And Is It Us?
On Vulnerability and Violence
The Culture of Terror and the Inevitability of Violence