The Bushman Myth

The Bushman Myth
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780429974182
ISBN-13 : 0429974183
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Download or read book The Bushman Myth written by Robert Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised, updated version of this book includes an analysis of the sweeping political changes in South Africa since its original publcation in 1992. Other new material covers more theoretical issues and contemporary developments in scholarship, including a reconsideration of the film ?The Gods Must Be Crazy?; a discussion of ?expos thnography? and its attendant political/moral positioning; and an examination of the political situation in Namibia, with a close study of the near collapse of the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation.


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