Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Ellis, William F."
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Ons is Boesmans: commentary on the naming of Bushmen in the southern Kalahari
Ellis, William F. (National Inquiry Services Centre, 2015)This paper examines academic debates about the nomenclature of the San in light of recent ethnographic data. Academic debates centre around two aspects: the apparent complicity of the term “bushman” in construing the San ... -
Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse
Ellis, William F. (Taylor & Francis, 2014)This article engages with the concept of authenticity as deployed in anthropology. The first section critiques authenticity as a simple reference to cultural purity, a traditional isomorphism or historical verisimilitude ...