Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen Cape Town, South Africa: University of Cape Town, 1996. exhibition catalogue Pippa Skotnes, editor and curator South African National Gallery, 14 April - 14 September 1996 Book Review Selected Contents: "Trophy Skulls, Museums, and the San" Alan G. Morris "With Camera and Gun in Southern Africa: Inventing the Image of Bushmen, c. 1880 to 1935" Paul S. Landau "Native Views of Western Eyes" Carmel Schrire

Complete Table of Contents: Forewords 9 Acknowledgements 12 Introduction 15 Mutilation and Meaning 25 Mutilating Meaning: European Interpretations of Khoisan Languages of the Body 24 Running Before That Wind: A Parallel Text 26 The Bushman in Early South African Literature 41 Bushman Religion: Open, Closed, and New Frontiers 51 The Self-Image of Jacob Adams 61 Trophy Skulls, Museums and the San 67 "Fated to Perish": The Destruction of the Cape San 81 A Tale of Two Families: Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and the /Xam San of the Northern Cape 93 Images of //Kabbo 115 With Camera and Gun in Southern Africa: Inventing the Image of Bushmen c. 1880 to 1935 129 The Proximity of Dr Bleek's Bushman 143 !Khwa-Ka Hhouiten Hhouiten, "The Rush of The Storm": The Linguistic Death of /Xam 161 Decolonising the Mind: Steps Toward Cleansing the Bushman Stain from Southern African History 185 In Pursuit of San Pre-colonial History in the Natal Drakensberg: A Historical Overview 191 Between the Lines: Some Remarks on 'Bushman' Ethnicity 197 Praise to the Bushman Ancestors of the Water: The Integration of San-related Concepts in the Beliefs and Ritual of a Diviners' Training School in Tsolo, Eastern Cape 211 From 'Lords of the Desert' to 'Rubbish People': The Colonial and Contemporary State of the Nharo of Botswana 225 Laurens van der Post and the Kalahari Debate 239 Khoi/San Relationships: Marginal Differences or Ethnicity? 249 Fashioning the Bushman in Van Riebeeck's Cape Town, 1952 and 1993 257 Bushman Images in South African Tourist Advertising: The case of Kagga Kamma 271 What is an Eland? N!ao and the Politics of Age and Sex in the Paintings of the Western Cape 281 Some Questions about Style and Authorship in Later San Paintings 291 Bushman Music: Still an Unknown 297 "The Ideas Generally Entertained with Regard to the Bushmen and their Mental Condition" 307 Re-production and Consumption: The Use of Rock Art Imagery in Southern Africa Today 315 Prisoners of their Reputation? The Veterans of the 'Bushman' Battalions in South Africa 323 Footprints in the Sand 331 Native Views of Western Eyes 343 Notes on the Contributors 355 Notes 356 Abbreviations and References 361 Index 370

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