Bushmen

The most useful result that ethnohistory can provide is to reconstruct what all aspects of a culture were like when it was most nearly intact and best documented and to compare the reconstructions of cultures to one another to determine what they had in common before they separated. This is what I attempted to do in Aborigines (Waddell 2016), and it is what I am attempting to do for Bushmen in two volumes on Bushmen by comparing primarily the !Kung and the G/wi, whose cultures were most nea...