Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Skotnes, Pippa, 1957-
2. South African National Gallery.

Description

1. 381 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.

Subject

1. Museum exhibits > Moral and ethical aspects > Exhibitions
2. San (African people) > Public opinion > Exhibitions
3. Khoikhoi (African people) > Exhibitions
4. San (African people) > Exhibitions
5. Khoikhoi (African people) > Public opinion > Exhibitions

Contents

1. Mutilating meaning : European interpretations of Khoisan languages of the body / David Chidester -- Mutilation and meaning / Stephen Greenblatt -- Running before that wind : a parallel text / by Pippa Skotnes -- The Bushman in early South African literature / Ian Glenn -- Bushman religion : open, closed, and new frontiers / David Chidester -- The self-image of Jacob Adams / Robert Ross -- Trophy skulls, museums and the San / Alan G. Morris -- "Fated to perish" : the destruction of the Cape San / Nigel Penn -- A tale of two families : Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and the /Xam San of the northern Cape / Janette Deacon -- Images of //Kabbo / Michael Godby -- With camera and gun in southern Africa : inventing the image of Bushmen, c.1880 to 1935 / Paul S. Landau -- The proximity of Dr Bleek's Bushman / Martin Hall -- !Khwa-Ka Hhouiten Hhouiten "The rush of the storm" : the linguistic death of /Xam / Anthony Traill -- Decolonising the mind : steps toward cleansing the Bushman stain from southern African history / Edwin Wilmsen -- In pursuit of San pre-colonial history in the Natal Drakensberg : a historical review / Aron Mazel -- Between the lines : some remarks on "Bushman" ethnicity / Pieter Jolly -- Praise to the Bushman ancestors of the water : the integration of San-related concepts in the beliefs and ritual of a diviners' training school in Tsolo, Eastern Cape / Frans E. Prins -- From "lords of the desert" to "rubbish people" : the colonial and contemporary state of the Nharo of Botswana / Mathias Guenther -- Laurens van der Post and the Kalahari debate / Alan Barnard -- Khoi/San relationships : marginal differences or ethnicity / Andrew Smith -- Fashioning the Bushman in Van Riebeeck's Cape Town, 1952 and 1993 / Rob Gordon, Ciraj Rassool and Leslie Witz -- Bushman images in South African tourist advertising : the case of Kagga Kamma / Barbara Buntman -- What is an eland? : N!ao and the politics of age and sex in the paintings of the Western Cape / John Parkington -- Some questions about style and authorship in later San paintings / Anne Solomon -- Bushman music : still an unknown / Deirdre Hansen -- "The ideas generally entertained with regard to the Bushmen and their mental condition" / J. David Lewis-Williams -- Re-production and consumption : the use of rock art imagery in southern Africa today / Thomas Dowson -- Prisoners of their reputation? : The veterans of the "Bushman" battalions in South Africa / John Sharp and Stuart Douglas -- Footprints in the sand / Paul Weinberg -- Native views of Western eyes / Carmel Schrire.

Call number

1. Sc F 02-252

Note

1. Compiled for an exhibition at the South African National Gallery.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-379) and index.

Title

1. Miscast : negotiating the presence of the Bushmen / edited by Pippa Skotnes.

Imprint

1. Cape Town, South Africa : University of Cape Town Press, 1996.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-379) and index.

Added author

1. Skotnes, Pippa, 1957-
2. South African National Gallery.

LCCN

1. 96193287

ISBN

1. 0799216526

Research call number

1. Sc F 02-252