The Bushman Myth: The Making Of A Namibian Underclass (Conflict and Social Change Series) - Hardcover

Gordon, Robert J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081331173X ISBN 13: 9780813311739

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Product Description:

GORDON, R. J. THE BUSHMAN MYTH. THE MAKING OF A NAMIBIAN UNDERCLASS. BOULDER, CO, 1992, xvi 304 p.,fotografias. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

About the Author:

Robert Gordon is professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont. Stuart Sholto-Douglas is a doctoral candidate at Rice University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 081331173X
• ISBN 13: 9780813311739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304