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 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, 071266436X

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.

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.

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.0869809911

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.

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, 9991271260

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. BNS, 136pp, BOTSWANA. LIGHTBOOKS PUBLISHERS. 9991271325

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

Dedicated to the appreciation of the vibrant art of the San, which emerged from a short phase of transition from the ancient culture - the rock art, the oral history, the old traditions, their 'magical' world - to the modern, globalised world of media communication and formal education. Col & b/w illus, 114pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

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. Rare book - out of print.

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/NEW AFRICA BOOKS, 0864863756

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.

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.

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, 0795701756

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.

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

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, 1869190106

2002 Hardback

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. Text in Afrikaans. Notes, 63pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS, 0795701748

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, 1868142477

1996 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.

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.