Writing in the San/d Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans

by Tomaselli, Keyan G.; Dyll, Lauren; Jeursen, Belinda; Kruiper, Belinda; Lange, Mary; McLennan-Dodd, Vanessa; Narunsky-Laden, Sonja; Taleb, Nasseema; Tomaselli, Charlize

• ISBN13: 9780759109506
• ISBN10: 0759109508
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-16
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Writing in the San/d details experiences and encounters with First People's (Bushmen) living in the Kalahari Desert (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa) (1995-2004), and a Khoi (1984) community in the eastern Cape, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Preface: Our Host Communities	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Acronyms	p. xv
Introduction: Setting the Scene	p. 1
Representing Representation	p. 11
Romancing the Kalahari: Personal Journeys of Methodological Discovery	p. 19
"Op die Grond": Writing in the San/d, Surviving Crime	p. 39
A Letter to Myself-My Trip to Ngwatle	p. 59
Voices from the Kalahari: Methodology and the Absurd	p. 73
Meeting Points: Symbiotic Spaces	p. 87
Wit Meisie/Morning Star: Encounters in the Desert	p. 105
In the Sun with Silikat	p. 117
Orality, Rhythmography, and Visual Representation-A Peasant's Lament	p. 131
References	p. 159
Index	p. 171
About the Contributors	p. 173
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