The Bushman Myth

Part 1 What's in a name?: locating the bushmen; bushman copper and autonomy; the incorporation of the bushmen into the world system; classifying bushmen - itinerant scientists. Part 2 The colonial presence: the imposition of the colonial state; the bushman "plague" of 1911; from policy to praxis; bushman hunts - bushman gangs. Part 3 The sacred trust: South African rapprochement; labouring legitimacy; boyond the police zone - disrupting the labour supply; extending administrative control - bushmen reserved; reaction and counter-reaction; "bushmen tamed" - life on the farm; academics on the attack - ethnological influence on bushman policy. Part 4 Bushmen iconified: creating bushmanland - anthropology triumphant?; bushmen obscured - farms, parks and reserves; bushmanland created; denouement - captive to the image. Part 5 Have we met the enemy and is it us?: on vulnerability and violence; the culture of terror and the inevitability of violence.