Description
A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.
About the Author
Alan Barnard is Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa in the University of Edinburgh. He has over 40 years' experience of field research with Bushmen or San in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. His publications include Language in Prehistory (Cambridge, 2016), Genesis of Symbolic Thought (Cambridge, 2012) and Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge, 2011).
Reviews
'This book provides a masterful synthesis of what is over a century of ethnographic research, but it is in advocating for anthropology to not lose sight of the value of comparison ... that it makes a broad and valuable contribution to the discipline.' Megan Laws, Anthropos
Book Information
ISBN 9781108406871
Author Alan Barnard
Format Paperback
Page Count 218
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 370g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 11mm