Highlights how Bushman or San ethnography has contributed to anthropological controversy, for example in the debates on the degree of incorporation of San society within the wider political economy, and on the validity of the case for 'indigenous rights' as a special kind of human rights. Index, , bib, 179pp, UK. BERG.

Now in paperback. Within decades of the arrival of Europeans in South Africa, the first people of the Cape were dying out and an ancient world of sorcerers, hunters and artists was lost, along with the stories they told. However, during the 1870s, six /Xam men imprisoned in Cape Town were released into the country home of a Prussian linguist called Wilhelm Bleek and his English born sister in law Lucy Lloyd. Here they were invited to teach their language and to share a previously unknown world. Over eighteen years, Bleek and Lloyd worked together to record 12,000 pages of stories, songs, pictures and moving personal histories. In this book, the author tells the story of this achievement, places the words of the /Xam men into their historical and social context and describes the tragedy of a vanished people. Illustrated with b/w photographs and images. Index, maps, ix, 420pp, UK. PENGUIN.

2005 0141008237 Paperback

The Bleek and Lloyd Collection consists of the notebooks in which William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd transcribed and translated the narratives, cultural information and personal histories told to them in the 1870's by a number of /Xam informants. It represents a rare and rich record of an indigenous language and culture that no longer exists. The /Xam materials have exerted a fascination for anthropologists and poets alike. This book examines not only the /Xam archive but also, and in the first instance, the critical tradition that has grown up around the archive as well as the hermeneutic principles that inform that tradition. It critiques these principles and offers not so much alternative readings as alternative modes of reading. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

The names of Bleek and Lloyd are well known, but the intriguing details of their lives and the lives of //Kabbo, Dia!kwain and their other informants are not. This marvellous book brings them to life for a wide audience and offers a refreshing insight into nineteenth-century South Africa. Index, bib, b/w illus, maps, 422pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

A mix of history and current affairs, travel, reportage and anecdote, this passionate book aims to highlight the precarious plight of the 'Bushmen'. Maps, col illus, index, xxxix, 264pp, UK. PIMLICO.

2001 071266436X Paperback

In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the death of their language, several San men and women told their stories to two pioneering colonial scholars in Cape Town, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. The narratives of these San (or Bushmen) were of the land, the rain, the history of the first people, and the origin of the moon and stars. These narratives were faithfully recorded and translated by Bleek and Lloyd, creating an archive of more than 13,000 pages including drawings, notebooks, maps, and photographs. Now residing in three main institutions the University of Cape Town, the South African Museum, and the National Library of South Africa this archive has recently been entered into UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Lavishly illustrated, this book, created, compiled, and introduced by Pippa Skotnes, presents in book form and on an accompanying DVD all the notebook pages and drawings that comprise this remarkable archive. Contextualizing essays by well-known scholars, such as Nigel Penn, Eustacia Riley, and Anthony Traill, and a searchable index for all the narratives and contributors are included. 388pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA.

During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh - whose stage name was Clicko - performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the 'Wild Dancing Bushman', showing off his frenzied dance moves in freak shows, sideshows, and music halls from Australia to Cuba. When he died in 1940, the New York Times called him 'the only African bushman ever exhibited in this country'. Neil Parsons unearths the untold story of Taibosh's journey from boyhood on a small farm in South Africa to top billing as one of the travelling World's Fair Freaks. Through Taibosh's tale, Parsons brings to life the bizarre golden age of entertainment as well as the role that the dubious new science of race played in it. Beginning with Taibosh's early life, he untangles the real story of his ancestry from the web of myths spun around him on his rise to international stardom. Parsons then chronicles the unhappy middle period of Taibosh's career, when he suffered under the heel of a vicious manager. Left to freeze and nearly starve in an unheated apartment, Taibosh was rescued by Frank Cook, Barnum & Bailey's lawyer. The Cooks adopted Taibosh as a member of their family of circus managers and performers, and his happy - if far from average - years with them make up the final chapter of this remarkable story. 256pp, USA. CHICAGO U P.

More than a hundred and twenty five years ago, at the height of the colonial era in South Africa, a remarkable group of people came together in Cape Town to write down the language and beliefs of the /Xam people, a Bushman group that once lived their traditional way of life over much of what is now South Africa. The significance and value of the labours of Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and their /Xam teachers are now well known, but not all of the fascinating materials, particularly /Xam testimony about their beliefs, are readily available. This book brings a wide range of /Xam beliefs together in one volume, together with notes and introductory comments. It is based on the articles published in the 1930s by Dorothea Bleek in the journal 'Bantu Studies', and includes a grammar of the /Xam language, maps, original drawings by the informants and photographs taken in the early 20th Century by Dorothea Bleek of the destitute descendants of the informants. Index, bib, b/w illus, b/w photos, 438pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Only 1000 copies of Patricia Vinnicombe's PEOPLE OF THE ELAND were printed in 1976 and it has become one of the rarest books on the African past. In 2002, Vinnicombe started to explore the possibility of republication. But, she did not feel that the book could be reissued without adding additional sections to explain how knowledge had expanded in the decades since original publication. Unfortunately, Pat died in March 2003 before she could start work on the new sections, so Peter Mitchell and Ben Smith have taken up this challenge and brought together the leading scholars in the field to write new sections to explain both how knowledge has changed since the publication of PEOPLE OF THE ELAND, and how current research is still influenced by this landmark volume. This book is thus intended as a companion volume to PEOPLE OF THE ELAND and it is hoped that this new volume will provide a richer appreciation of the importance of Pat's original work, as well as allowing readers an overview of current understandings of Drakensberg rock art. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

In this collection of poems, Alan James has produced meticulously considered versions of a selection of the /Xam narrations transcribed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including many which have thus far received little, if any, literary or critical attention. The poems are supplemented by explanatory notes, helpful in particular to those who are unfamiliar with /Xam history and culture. Maps, 269pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL PRESS.

An account of the author's three expeditions to the Kalahari during the 1950s studying the lives of a small community of San, the Ju/wasi. This edition, published in 1988 includes an epilogue in which Elisabeth Marshall Thomas describes their current plight and political situation. 250pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

1988 1959 0864860625 Paperback

In this stirring sequel to THE LOST WORLD OF THE KALAHARI Laurens van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and lore of Africa's first inhabitants. He explores the very sources of the Bushmen's spirit and imagination - their dreams and stories, the legends that guide them and inspire them in their daily battles with that harshest of environments, the Kalahari. 232pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Using photographs and texts from the nineteenth century the author tells the story of those who worked to preserve the dying language of the /Xam and the ideas it articulated. 56pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS.

A study of common and diverse features among the San/Bushmen, the Khoekhoe and the Damara, in Botswana and Namibia. 368pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

The purpose of the book is to give an overview of the existing and pending national legislation and to look at the relevance and applicability of international human rights legislation to the first peoples of southern Africa. Through case studies, the chapters in the book examine the policies and the ways in which they affect the lifestyles and well being, both positively and negatively, of indigenous peoples. 278pp, DENMARK. IWGIA.

Unromanticised images of the San taken by one of South Africa's most outstanding documentary photographers over a ten-year period. Weinberg also provides the text. B/w illus, 80pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PORCUPINE PRESS.

1997 0620212314 Paperback

Using photographic portraits and art by acclaimed artist Vetkat Kruiper, Belinda Kruiper describes the complex reality of the Khomani Bushman community she belongs to, weaving together myth, politics and anecdote. Gloss, xxi, 110pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL PRESS.

The first volume of the annotated bibliography which will list all the available cross-disciplinary works about the Khoe and the San of Southern Africa. Each entry includes an abstract and bibliographic details. Author index, subject index, maps, refs, vii, 248pp, BOTSWANA. LIGHTBOOKS PUBLISHERS.

The bibliography is compiled by the University of Botswana which houses a unique collection of contemporary published and unpublished written material on the indigenous minorities of Southern Africa. The aim is to make this literature available in one collection, and thus promote research on, with, and by, this minority. The second volume, lists some 450 annotated bibliographic entries covering the social sciences, languages and history, as well as publications from national and regional San organisations. Short abstracts of each entry are linked to a list of keywords and authors. 136pp, BOTSWANA. LIGHTBOOKS PUBLISHERS.

A survey of the society, early history and traditions of the Khoekhoe of South Africa and Namibia. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823920070

Re-examines an important anthropological data set collected by Nancy Howell and colleagues for the Dobe !Kung, the well-known 'Bushmen' of the Kalahari Desert. Using life history analysis, Howell reinterprets this rich material to address the question of how these hunter-gatherers maintain their notably good health from childhood through old age in the Kalahari's harsh environment. She divides the population into life history stages that correlate with estimated chronological ages and demonstrates how and why they survive, even thrive, on a modest allotment of calories. She describes how surplus food is produced and distributed, and she considers both the motives for the generous sharing she has observed among the Dobe !Kung and some evolutionary implications of that behaviour. 232pp, USA. CALIFORNIA U P.

The classic account of the Bushman's way of life. From the earliest days of his childhood in South Africa, Laurens van der Post heard tantalizing stories of the Bushmen that had once frequented the region, but who were now gone, murdered or driven away by other races who didn't understand their way of life. Time and again, people lamented their passing but observed that 'they couldn't be tamed'. Many years later, he set out for the Kalahari Desert, intrigued by stories he'd heard of Bushmen still living their ancient way of life. For all the overly poetic and sentimental terms in which he couches his writing, his account of the Bushmen is nonetheless a classic piece of travel writing and a still-powerful glimpse into a way of life seemingly unaltered for many thousands of years. 232pp, UK, VINTAGE

A comprehensive exploration of the Bushmen, from the diverse perspectives of of anthropology, archaeology, comparative religion, literary studies, art history, and musicology. Large format, richly illustrated mainly in black-and-white, and with two-column text. Bib, index, 380pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS.

1996 0799216526 Paperback

The art and stories of seventeen artists from two San communities that were displaced by decades of war in Namibia and Angola and recently resettled in the semi-desert of South Africa's Northern Cape. Large format, col ill, 136pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Reissue of the original 1976 study, which was the first major step away from the outsider's view upon San rock art that had dominated studies of rock art for nearly a century. The title, an account of the rock art of the San of the Drakensberg Range, was also about the mountain San themselves: their lives, their beliefs, their culture and their history during colonisation. The book not only brought an extraordinary and dynamic body of art to the attention of a global audience, but also helped to lay the foundations for a new generation of research into the meaning of prehistoric art. 400pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

First published in 1921, this is the first English publication of these four lyrical tales. With line drawings by Katrine Harries. Translated by Jacques Coetzee. 48pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU.

New fiction. In a southern Africa violently split during Apartheid, Koba is taken away from her Kalahari desert tribe after witnessing her parents being murdered by a party of white hunters. She slowly learns to adapt and survive in a dangerous but beautiful environment. However, she is plagued by the knowledge that unless she leaves those who have grown to love her, she faces exile from her own people. The only answer may be to risk all through the brutal laws that condemn her. Gloss, 224pp, UK. LEGEND PRESS.

A survey of the society, community life, religion and history of the San people of Southern Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919978

Children's picture book. Living as hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert region of southern Africa, the San once existed in self-contained villages. Exposed to modern ways, their way of life is almost gone. Full-Color Photographs, Maps, Index, Glossary, Further Reading List, Website resources, 48pp, USA. LERNER PUBLISHING GROUP.

A collection of B/w photographs of the San of the Kalahari taken in 1959. The first part presents the daily life of the San with intimate portraits of individuals. Includes an essay by George Hulme. The second part illustrates a healing dance and includes an essay by David Lewis Williams. 96pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.

An ethnographic study of the worldview and spirituality of the San examining the interplay of their cosmology, myths, rituals and art and the role of shamans and mind altering substances. The authors also discuss how the San worldview has been challenged and altered by the modern world. Illustrated with b/w images and photographs. Index, bib, notes, xxvi, 267pp, USA. ALTAMIRA PRESS.

Using the material recorded by Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek during the 1870s, Antjie Krog has selected a number of /Xam texts and adapted them into poems, keeping as close as possible to the original transcription. Notes, 63pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

2004 0795701756 Paperback

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Using the material recorded by Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek during the 1870s, Antjie Krog has selected a number of /Xam texts and adapted them into poems, keeping as close as possible to the original transcription. Text in Afrikaans. Notes, 63pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

A collection of stories sourced directly from 'Bushmen', or San people over a hun-dred years ago. They speak about their lives and beliefs, and about how they were affected when the early colonists expanded into the semi-arid interior. Map, b/w illus, refs, 285pp, SOUTH AFRICA . DAVID PHILIP.

Initially appearing in 1986, the doctoral thesis on which this book is based became the catalyst for much scholarly research. The book offers an analysis of the entire corpus of /Xam narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection, focusing particularly on the cycle of narratives concern-ing the trickster /Kaggen (Mantis). These are examined on three levels from the 'deep structures' with resonances in other areas of /Xam culture and supernatural belief, through the recurring patterns of narrative composition apparent across the cycle, and finally touching on the observable differences in the performances by the various /Xam collaborators. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts - poet, historian, ethnographer and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock art paintings in the caves and shelters of the South African interior. Enchanted and absorbed by them, Stow set out to create a record of this creative work of the people who had tracked and marked the South African landscape centuries before him. This book reveals for the first time the beauty and scope of his labours. Col illus, 216pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Papers presenting a detailed biographical account of the work of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd with the /Xam bushmen. The contributors also describe the continuing importance of their work in modern ethnographic work. Bib, 300pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

1996 1868142477 Paperback

The San - also known as the 'Bushmen' - live in the imagination of the world. They were the first artists, the first storytellers, the first custodians of the natural world. Theirs was a life of harmony with animals and seasons, with the continuity of ideas passed on from generation to generation. In the popular imagination this world of the San has all but died away, traces of it surfacing as the subject of films and books, documentaries and adverts, university theses.

This book gives a unique insight into other, often neglected, aspects of the story of the San, one which hints at the scope of their exploitation and marginalisation by others. It is, at last, a story told by the San themselves. Here for the first time they tell their own stories in their own words. Large format, 226 pages, illustrated in colour and black & white throughout. SOUTH AFRICA, KWELA BOOKS.

2004 0795701926 Hardback

This illustrated book and its accompanying CD are a remarkable record of San music, ancient and modern, as performed by the !Xun community at Schmidtsdrift in the Northern Cape, a group of people who have found their way from southern Angola via northern Namibia to South Africa within the last few decades. 38pp, includes CD, with 32 tracks, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

A study of the folklore and foraging ideology of the Kalihari Ju/'hoan. lllustrated, bib, index, map, 224pp., USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

1993 0253315662 Paperback