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The Bushman Myth

The Making of a Namibian Underclass

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ID3913357
AuthorsJeff Ramsay (0000-0003-4400-4866, corresponding author), Robert M Gordon (0000-0002-6947-7750), Robert Gordon (0000-0002-1659-817X)
Year1995
Volume28
Issue3
Pages689
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofThe Bushman myth: The making of a Namibian underclass, Robert J Gordon, 2000
VenueThe International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/221217
OpenAlexW2062696375
LanguageEN

The Bushmen: A Merger of Fantasy and Nightmare Whats In A Name? * Locating the Bushmen * Bushman Copper and Autonomy * The Incorporation of Bushmen into the World System * Classifying Bushmen: Itinerant Scientists The Colonial Presence * The Imposition of the Colonial State * The Bushman Plague of 1911 * From Policy to Practice * Bushman Hunts and Bushman Gangs The Sacred Trust * South African Rapprochement * Laboring Legitimacy * Beyond the Police Zone: Disrupting the Labor Supply * Extending Administrative Control: Bushmen Reserved * Reaction and Counterreaction * Bushmen Tamed: Life on the Farm * Academics on the Attack: Ethnological Influence on Bushman Policy Bushmen Iconified * Creating Bushmanland: Anthropology Triumphant? * Bushmen Obscured: Farms, Parks, and Reserves * Bushmanland Fabricated * Denouement: Captives of the Image of Wild Bushmen Have We Met The Enemy And Is It Us? * On Vulnerability and Violence * The Culture of Terror and the Inevitability of Violence

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