San Elders Speak: Ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San

by Lucinda Backwell, Francesco d'Errico

Overview

This richly illustrated book documents indigenous knowledge and uses of San material culture and artefacts collected a century ago, as described by KhoiSan elders to the authors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781776146659
Publisher:	Wits University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	56 MB
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About the Author

Lucinda Backwell (Author)
Lucinda Backwell is a researcher in the Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales (CONICET), Tucumán, Argentina and an Honorary Researcher in the Evolutionary Studies Institute and DSI/NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Francesco d'Errico (Author)
Francesco d'Errico is Director of Research of Exceptional Class at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Bordeaux, France, and Professor at the Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, University of Bergen, Norway. Author of more than 200 articles and research monographs, he is ranked since 2016 in the list of the Highly Cited Researchers in social sciences.

Lucinda Backwell is a researcher in the Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales (CONICET), Tucumán, Argentina and an Honorary Researcher in the Evolutionary Studies Institute and DSI/NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Francesco d'Errico is Director of Research of Exceptional Class at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Bordeaux, France, and Professor at the Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, University of Bergen, Norway. Author of more than 200 articles and research monographs, he is ranked since 2016 in the list of the Highly Cited Researchers in social sciences.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Foreword xvii

Preface xix

Acknowledgements xxii

Maps xxiv

Chapter 1 Meeting the San Elders 1

Chapter 2 San: Past and Present 11

Chapter 3 The Life And Times of Louis Fourie 17

Chapter 4 Day 1 35

Chapter 5 Day 2 Morning 59

Chapter 6 Day 2 Afternoon 73

Chapter 7 Day 3 Morning 103

Chapter 8 Day 3 Afternoon 121

Chapter 9 Day 4 Morning 169

Chapter 10 Day 4 Afternoon 183

Chapter 11 Day 5 195

Chapter 12 Day 6 211

Chapter 13 Day 7 237

Appendix 254

Bibliography 260

About the authors 263

Index 264