Vanessa Mclennan-Dodd
Biographic Data
| ID | 181493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Mclennan-Dodd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclennan-Dodd |
| SIGNATURE | MCLENNAN-DODD V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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The Healing Land
The Healing Land (Isaacson, 2001a) is a vivid, experiential account of Rupert Isaacson's journey towards personal and community healing among the ≠Khomani Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. This paper provides a detailed analysis of The Healing Land in relation to Isaacson's research methodology and interaction with the ≠Khomani, examining how the story he tells is influenced and shaped by his own perceptions and experiences. This ar…
Hotel Kalahari
This article relates the author's experience in the Kalahari, South Africa, to theory in a reflexive, self-conscious, and critical manner. With that intention, the article discusses the Bushmen as individual people rather than as a more abstract social phenomenon or problem and examines what might be done to ensure a more realistic and equitable portrayal of the people of the Kalahari to the world through the media. This article also intends to e…
They lie, we lie
Peter Metcalf London & New York: Routledge, 2002 Introduction is an essay about lies: white lies and ones as black as night, evasions, exaggerations, delusions, half-truths and credible denials (Metcalf, 2002, p. 1). Peter Metcalf's They Lie, We Lie highlights power relations and complexities that occur in practice of ethnography, and specifically within relationships that develop between researchers and their informants. demonstrates that exploi…
Hotel Kalahari
This article relates the author's experience in the Kalahari, South Africa, to theory in a reflexive, self-conscious, and critical manner. With that intention, the article discusses the Bushmen as individual people rather than as a more abstract social phenomenon or problem and examines what might be done to ensure a more realistic and equitable portrayal of the people of the Kalahari to the world through the media. This article also intends to e…
The Healing Land
The Healing Land (Isaacson, 2001a) is a vivid, experiential account of Rupert Isaacson's journey towards personal and community healing among the ≠Khomani Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. This paper provides a detailed analysis of The Healing Land in relation to Isaacson's research methodology and interaction with the ≠Khomani, examining how the story he tells is influenced and shaped by his own perceptions and experiences. This ar…
They lie, we lie
Peter Metcalf London & New York: Routledge, 2002 Introduction is an essay about lies: white lies and ones as black as night, evasions, exaggerations, delusions, half-truths and credible denials (Metcalf, 2002, p. 1). Peter Metcalf's They Lie, We Lie highlights power relations and complexities that occur in practice of ethnography, and specifically within relationships that develop between researchers and their informants. demonstrates that exploi…
Hotel Kalahari
This article relates the author's experience in the Kalahari, South Africa, to theory in a reflexive, self-conscious, and critical manner. With that intention, the article discusses the Bushmen as individual people rather than as a more abstract social phenomenon or problem and examines what might be done to ensure a more realistic and equitable portrayal of the people of the Kalahari to the world through the media. This article also intends to e…
The Healing Land
The Healing Land (Isaacson, 2001a) is a vivid, experiential account of Rupert Isaacson's journey towards personal and community healing among the ≠Khomani Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. This paper provides a detailed analysis of The Healing Land in relation to Isaacson's research methodology and interaction with the ≠Khomani, examining how the story he tells is influenced and shaped by his own perceptions and experiences. This ar…
Search for the Bushmen
Sociology (4 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)