{"product_id":"the-bushman-myth-revisited-genocide-dispossession-and-the-road-to-servitude","title":"THE BUSHMAN MYTH REVISITED, Genocide, Dispossession and the Road to Servitude, with a folio of contemporary photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e310pp., b\/w \u0026amp; colour illus., maps, paperback, \u003c\/em\u003eUniversity of Namibia Press, Windhoek, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9789994557448\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis history of Namibia's Bushman population is a substantially reworked version of Robert J Gordon's path-breaking book \u003cem\u003eThe Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in the USA in 1992. It introduces much new material and brings fresh perspectives to bear on the subject through the lenses of settler colonialism and genocide, both transnational phenomena that place this case in a global frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Few histories are as harrowing to document as exterminatory violence visited upon an entire social group, and the reduction of survivors to utter abjection - especially if the victims are one of humanity's ancestral cultures. Gordon accomplishes this task as regards Namibias Bushman population with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eanalytical rigour, singular depth of scholarship, and deep-felt compassion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLucid, incisive, and cogent, \u003cem\u003eThe Bushman Myth Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e is requisite reading for an understanding not only of the Namibian Bushman experience under colonial rule, but also of the distinctive natures of both German and South African occupation of the territory.\" Mohamed Adhikari, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDestroying the Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNamibian-born cultural anthropologist \u003cstrong\u003eRobert J. Gordon\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor at the University of Vermont and a research associate at the University of the Free State. His other books include \u003cem\u003eEthnologists in Camouflage, Picturing Bushmen, The Enigma of Max Gluckman\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGoing Abroad: Travelling like an Anthropologist.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gordon (R.J.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42287296872494,"sku":null,"price":510.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0265\/3182\/3662\/files\/BushmanMythRevisited.jpg?v=1776869930","url":"https:\/\/clarkesbooks.co.za\/products\/the-bushman-myth-revisited-genocide-dispossession-and-the-road-to-servitude","provider":"Clarke's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}