- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books; Second Edition edition (Dec 22 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813335817
- ISBN-13: 978-0813335810
- Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 2.3 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,815,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 “exposé ethnography” 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.
About the Author
Robert Gordon is professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont. Stuart Sholto-Douglas is a doctoral candidate at Rice University. Robert Gordon is professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont. Stuart Sholto-Douglas is a doctoral candidate at Rice University.
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Not for the layperson, Sep 17 2008
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This review is from: The Bushman Myth: The Making Of a Namibian Underclass, Second Edition (Paperback)
I'm not an anthropologist, and I have to think this book is better aimed at that audience than laypeople. I read the book during a trip to Namibia this month. I found it informative in terms of history of the bushmen, but I thought there were some holes in the author's logic. He also seemed to be pretty critical of the Herero tribe. I didn't walk away with any conclusion from the author, other than the fact that common assumptions about Bushmen over time have been erroneous. Better reading for the layperson prior to a Namibia trip would be Colin Leys "Histories of Namibia" and his "Namibia's Liberation Struggle", best read in that order (though those books don't highlight bushmen).Paul
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great discusion of the image and self., May 11 1999
By llbw6@Aol.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Bushman Myth: The Making Of a Namibian Underclass, Second Edition (Paperback)
Robert gordons book shows how people in love with the idea of how the bushmen should behave really have no idea of how they actually behave.
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