Megan Biesele
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85274 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Megan Biesele |
| NOMBRES | Megan |
| APELLIDO | Biesele |
| FIRMA | BIESELE M |
| AFILIACIONES | Rice University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 227 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
‘Elusive and allusive’
I found the Ju|‘hoan San folklore I recorded in Botswana in 1971, when Ju|‘hoan people had a completely oral culture, very elusive. Recording many variants of stories, I learned that each storyteller told a given story differently, their performed versions ranging from full to fragmentary, often with vast differences in characters and details, yet always, intriguingly, ’the same’ story. Piecing together meanings of these elusive stories required …
The Politics of Egalitarianism
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cult…
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resour…
The Ju/'hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence
The Ju/'hoan San, or Ju/'hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this group in the writings of Richard Lee, Lorna Marsh…
Mathias G. GUENTHER, Bushman Folktales (Studien Zur Kulturkunde, Band 93), Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Stuttgart, 1989
Mathias G. GUENTHER, Bushman Folktales (Studien Zur Kulturkunde, Band 93), Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Stuttgart, 1989. Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 13, numéro 1, 1993, p. 3-116) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Tracking Science
In response to recent discussion about terminology, we propose "tracking science" as a term that is more inclusive than citizen science. Our suggestion is set against a post-colonial political background and large-scale migrations, in which "citizen" is becoming an increasingly contentious term. As a diverse group of authors from several continents, our priority is to deliberate a term that is all-inclusive, so that it could be adopted by everyon…
South African /Xam Bushman Traditions and their Relationship to Further Khoisan Folklore
South African /Xam Bushman Traditions and their Relationship to Further Khoisan Folklore." Folklore, 127(1), pp. 110–111
Tracking in Caves
Some of the painted caves in southern France preserve human footprints from the Ice Age of 17,000 years ago. Research has so far dealt with them sparsely and through a morphometric approach only. In 2013 three indigenous hunters/trackers from the Kalahari had an opportunity to read several spoor accumulations in four caves on the basis of their indigenous knowledge. As a result of this morpho-classificatory approach to track reading they produced…
Bitter roots
Adrian Strong and Claire Ritchie, two visual anthropologists, returned to the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia in 2007, two years after the death of celebrated ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall and t
Tracks across Sand
Indigenous rights in southern Africa
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence
The Ju/’hoan San, or Ju/’hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this group in the writings of Richard Lee, Lorna Marsh…
To see ourselves as we need to see us
Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…
Pippa Skotnes
Claim to the country: the archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, by Pippa Skotnes, Johannesburg & Cape Town, Jacana and Athens, Ohio University Press, 2007, 392 pp., ZAR 354, $65 (cloth), ISBN 97
Writing in the San/d
Reviewed by: Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans Megan Biesele (bio) and Robert K. Hitchcock (bio) Keyan G. Tomaselli , ed. Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007. 190 pp. Paper, $29.95. The Writing in the San/d anthology is an intriguing experiment in collaborative methods and so is quite apt for inclusion in this first volume of Collaborativ…
Digital documentation of Ju/'hoan narratives
Studying the phonetically complex language of the Ju/'hoan San (previously called the !Kung) of Botswana and Namibia greatly increases our understanding of their hunting and gathering tradition and how it is changing. This paper reports on a long term project to transform an extensive ‘legacy collection’ of audio textual material in Ju/'hoan into authoritative digital texts and sound files, enabling the responsible posting of the material to inte…
Commentary
The Kalahari Peoples Fund
Le groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire de Harvard sur le Kalahari (Harvard Kalahari Research Group) dirige par Richard Lee et Irven DeVore s'est etendu en 1973, apres une decade de recherches coordonnees au Botswana, pour inclure une organisation activiste sans but lucratif : The Kalahari Peoples Fund (KPF). KPF est l'un des plus anciens groupes anthropologiques dedies a une cause, en Amerique du Nord. Apres plus de vingt-cinq ans, KPF demeure…
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
Distance from the Manuscript
To whom it may concern
Based on transcribed and translated tapes from political meetings three years pre- and three years post-Independence in Namibia, this paper examines processes of discourse development during an unprecedented period of challenge and contact for the Ju/'hoan Bushman people. The formulation of an acceptable rhetorical style among this “fiercely egalitarian” people has called for a great deal of social delicacy. Creative employment of concepts and eu…
Stories That Float from Afar
Hunters and Gatherers of the Modern World
Two kinds of bioscope
A quote from a Namibian Ju/'hoan political leader introduces the topic of community concerns about the practical implications of various styles of ethnographic filmmaking. The main issues addressed include communication, leadership, and decision‐making processes internal to the community being filmed; development planning and self‐presentation in state and international contexts; community participation in design of, and remuneration from, film p…
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
One of the world's oldest continuing societies, the Ju/'hoansi, or Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert offer profound insights into what is fundamental to human existence. In the face of outside pressures that threaten the complete disruption of their communal way of life, the Ju/'hoansi find deep spiritual resources in their traditional healing dance. Their indigenous method of healing individuals is also a powerful affirmation of the community, and …
The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]
This paper suggests a new theoretical framework for understanding southern San rock art. The traditional explanations have been either innatist or functionalist. To escape the tautology of the former and the restrictions of the latter it is suggested that the articulation between the art and the social relations of production be sought. This articulation was expressed in the activities of medicine men, whose symbolic work acted upon the reproduct…
Eland Hunting Rituals among Northern and Southern San Groups
Opening ParagraphThe prominence of the eland in San thought is suggested by the frequency with which this antelope was depicted in rock paintings and also by the myths and rituals in which it features. In this paper we describe and compare certain eland beliefs and hunting rituals drawn from two San groups, the !Kung of Botswana and the now extinct \Xam of the Cape Province. The relevance of material obtained from the northern !Kung to the explic…
Sapience and scarce resources
Tracking in Caves
Some of the painted caves in southern France preserve human footprints from the Ice Age of 17,000 years ago. Research has so far dealt with them sparsely and through a morphometric approach only. In 2013 three indigenous hunters/trackers from the Kalahari had an opportunity to read several spoor accumulations in four caves on the basis of their indigenous knowledge. As a result of this morpho-classificatory approach to track reading they produced…
Boiling Energy
Two kinds of bioscope
A quote from a Namibian Ju/'hoan political leader introduces the topic of community concerns about the practical implications of various styles of ethnographic filmmaking. The main issues addressed include communication, leadership, and decision‐making processes internal to the community being filmed; development planning and self‐presentation in state and international contexts; community participation in design of, and remuneration from, film p…
"How Hunter-Gatherers' Stories "Make Sense
Indigenous rights in southern Africa
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence
The Ju/’hoan San, or Ju/’hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this group in the writings of Richard Lee, Lorna Marsh…
To see ourselves as we need to see us
Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…
Writing in the San/d
Reviewed by: Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans Megan Biesele (bio) and Robert K. Hitchcock (bio) Keyan G. Tomaselli , ed. Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007. 190 pp. Paper, $29.95. The Writing in the San/d anthology is an intriguing experiment in collaborative methods and so is quite apt for inclusion in this first volume of Collaborativ…
Tracking Science
In response to recent discussion about terminology, we propose "tracking science" as a term that is more inclusive than citizen science. Our suggestion is set against a post-colonial political background and large-scale migrations, in which "citizen" is becoming an increasingly contentious term. As a diverse group of authors from several continents, our priority is to deliberate a term that is all-inclusive, so that it could be adopted by everyon…
Commentary
To whom it may concern
Based on transcribed and translated tapes from political meetings three years pre- and three years post-Independence in Namibia, this paper examines processes of discourse development during an unprecedented period of challenge and contact for the Ju/'hoan Bushman people. The formulation of an acceptable rhetorical style among this “fiercely egalitarian” people has called for a great deal of social delicacy. Creative employment of concepts and eu…
The Ju/'hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence
The Ju/'hoan San, or Ju/'hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this group in the writings of Richard Lee, Lorna Marsh…
South African /Xam Bushman Traditions and their Relationship to Further Khoisan Folklore
South African /Xam Bushman Traditions and their Relationship to Further Khoisan Folklore." Folklore, 127(1), pp. 110–111
Digital documentation of Ju/'hoan narratives
Studying the phonetically complex language of the Ju/'hoan San (previously called the !Kung) of Botswana and Namibia greatly increases our understanding of their hunting and gathering tradition and how it is changing. This paper reports on a long term project to transform an extensive ‘legacy collection’ of audio textual material in Ju/'hoan into authoritative digital texts and sound files, enabling the responsible posting of the material to inte…
The Kalahari Peoples Fund
Le groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire de Harvard sur le Kalahari (Harvard Kalahari Research Group) dirige par Richard Lee et Irven DeVore s'est etendu en 1973, apres une decade de recherches coordonnees au Botswana, pour inclure une organisation activiste sans but lucratif : The Kalahari Peoples Fund (KPF). KPF est l'un des plus anciens groupes anthropologiques dedies a une cause, en Amerique du Nord. Apres plus de vingt-cinq ans, KPF demeure…
Distance from the Manuscript
Sapience and scarce resources
Eland Hunting Rituals among Northern and Southern San Groups
Opening ParagraphThe prominence of the eland in San thought is suggested by the frequency with which this antelope was depicted in rock paintings and also by the myths and rituals in which it features. In this paper we describe and compare certain eland beliefs and hunting rituals drawn from two San groups, the !Kung of Botswana and the now extinct \Xam of the Cape Province. The relevance of material obtained from the northern !Kung to the explic…
Films
The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]
This paper suggests a new theoretical framework for understanding southern San rock art. The traditional explanations have been either innatist or functionalist. To escape the tautology of the former and the restrictions of the latter it is suggested that the articulation between the art and the social relations of production be sought. This articulation was expressed in the activities of medicine men, whose symbolic work acted upon the reproduct…
Interpretation in Rock Art and Folklore
Instrumental Music of the Kalahari San
Boiling Energy
The San in Transition, Volume 1
"How Hunter-Gatherers' Stories "Make Sense
Individuality and Learning in an Ethnographic Novel
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Women like Meat
PART I Sapience and survival: The Ju/'hoansi and their folklore Folklore and foraging Oral systems of communication. PART II Ju/'hoan expressive life: Tradition and creativity in Ju/'hoan religion and folklore Understanding Ju/'hoan tales Selected tales and analysis Technology and metaphor
The Straight Path
Comment on ‘the Kalahari debate continued’
Different people just have different minds”
Rock Engravings of Southern Africa . Thomas A. Dowson
Backwoodsmen
Representation of the Ju/hoansi
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
One of the world's oldest continuing societies, the Ju/'hoansi, or Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert offer profound insights into what is fundamental to human existence. In the face of outside pressures that threaten the complete disruption of their communal way of life, the Ju/'hoansi find deep spiritual resources in their traditional healing dance. Their indigenous method of healing individuals is also a powerful affirmation of the community, and …
Two kinds of bioscope
A quote from a Namibian Ju/'hoan political leader introduces the topic of community concerns about the practical implications of various styles of ethnographic filmmaking. The main issues addressed include communication, leadership, and decision‐making processes internal to the community being filmed; development planning and self‐presentation in state and international contexts; community participation in design of, and remuneration from, film p…
To whom it may concern
Based on transcribed and translated tapes from political meetings three years pre- and three years post-Independence in Namibia, this paper examines processes of discourse development during an unprecedented period of challenge and contact for the Ju/'hoan Bushman people. The formulation of an acceptable rhetorical style among this “fiercely egalitarian” people has called for a great deal of social delicacy. Creative employment of concepts and eu…
Stories That Float from Afar
Hunters and Gatherers of the Modern World
Distance from the Manuscript
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
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