The Bushman Myth
The Making Of A Namibian Underclass
Robert J. Gordon(Author)
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 17. February 1992
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Hardback
304 pages
978-0-8133-1173-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Images of the bushman - such as the innocent hero of the film "The Gods Must Be Crazy", "vermin" eradicated by the early colonists, the superhuman trackers conscripted by the South African Defence Forces, and the living embodiment of prehistory for the academic - rather than the actuality, shape our perceptions. Examining this interplay between imagery, history and policy, this book focuses not on the bushman, but on the colonizers' image of them and the consequences of that image for the people assumed to be bushmen.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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978-0-8133-1173-9 (9780813311739)
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Content
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.