Writing in the San/d

Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans
Herausgeber: Tomaselli, Keyan G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780759109513
• ISBN-10: 0759109516
• Artikelnr.: 21403247

Autorenporträt

Keyan G. Tomaselli is professor and chair of Culture, Communication and Media Studies (CCMS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. He has written extensively on his Kalahari research in Visual Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Critical Arts and Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies. He is author of Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation.

Inhaltsangabe

0 Introduction: Setting the Scene
Chapter 1 Representing Representation
Chapter 2 Romancing the Kalihari: Personal Journeys of Methodological
Discovery
Chapter 3 'Op die Grond': Writing in the San/d, Surviving Crime
Chapter 4 A Letter to Myself-My Trip to Ngwatle
Chapter 5 Voices from the Kalahari: Methodology and the Absurd
Chapter 6 Meeting Points: Symbiotic Spaces
7 Wit Meisie /Morning Star: Encounters in the Desert
8 In the Sun with Silikat
9 Orality, Rhythmography and Visual Representation