The Bushman is a perennial but changing image. The transformation of thatimage is important. It symbolizes the perception of Bushman or San society ofthe ideas ... » 

The Bushman is a perennial but changing image. The transformation of thatimage is important. It symbolizes the perception of Bushman or San society ofthe ideas and values of ethnographers who have worked with Bushman peoples andthose of other anthropologists who use this work. Anthropology and theBushman covers early travellers and settlers classic nineteenth andtwentiethcentury ethnographers North American and Japanese ecologicaltraditions the approaches of African ethnographers and recent work onadvocacy and social development. It reveals the impact of Bushman studies onanthropology and on the public. The book highlights how Bushman or Sanethnography has contributed to anthropological controversy for example in thedebates on the degree of incorporation of San society within the widerpolitical economy and on the validity of the case for indigenous rights as aspecial kind of human rights. Examining the changing image of the BushmanBarnard provides a new contribution to an established anthropology debate. «