Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography Among Indigenous Southern Africans

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Keyan G. Tomaselli
Rowman Altamira, 2007 - Počet stran: 174
The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology, subjects of research going back one hundred years, of documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy). This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography, collaborative (one of the writers is married to a member of the community), reflexive (the authors become characters in the book themselves), and literary (with poetry, dialogue, interviews, photography, and first person accounts, as well as traditional ethnographic description). In this book, South Africans are studying other South Africans, in a new environment in which many San are no longer hunter gatherers, but are activist and engaged in cultural tourism. It will be an exciting counterpoint to traditional ethnographies and stories about the San people, for anthropologists and Africanists.
 

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Representing Representation
11
Romancing the Kalahari Personal Journeys of Methodological Discovery
19
Op die Grond Writing in the Sand Surviving Crime
39
A Letter to MyselfMy Trip to Ngwatle
59
Voices from the Kalahari Methodology and the Absurd
73
Meeting Points Symbiotic Spaces
87
Wit MeisieMorning Star Encounters in the Desert
105
In the Sun with Silikat
117
Orality Rhythmography and Visual RepresentationA Peasants Lament
131
References
159
Index
171
About the Contributors
173
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Keyan G. Tomaselli is professor and chair of Culture, Communication and Media Studies (CCMS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. He has written extensively on his Kalahari research in Visual Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Critical Arts and Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies. He is author of Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation.

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