... Page 2. BOOK REVIEWS 571 historiography epitomized by early twentieth century writer Heinrich... more ... Page 2. BOOK REVIEWS 571 historiography epitomized by early twentieth century writer Heinrich Vedeer. ... University of Edinburgh ALAN BARNARD The Livingstones at Kolobeng 1847-1852, by Janet Wagner Parsons. The Botswana Society and Pula Press, Gaborone, 1997. ...
Recent thinking sees the earliest Khoekhoe as a kind of San with livestock. Eighteenth-century t... more Recent thinking sees the earliest Khoekhoe as a kind of San with livestock. Eighteenth-century travellers sometimes seem to have seen San as a kind of Khoekhoe without livestock. Classic ethnographic sources saw Khoekhoe and San as related peoples, one with livestock and one without. Some in recent years have suggested that Khoekhoe and San are unstable ethnicities, shifting back and forth with the acquisition and loss of livestock. Is there a correct view? This paper attempts to answer that question. One theme of the paper is the idea that the acquisition of livestock by twentieth-century Khoe-speaking hunter-gatherers might serve as an analogy for deciphering similar processess among early Khoekhoe. The shifting lifestyles from hunter to herder and back again in the Cape are now well documented in the historical and archaeological records. Similar processes have been observed by ethnographers in the Kalahari since the 1970s. Another theme is the more theoretical concern of Khoek...
In this simple experiment for an undergraduate laboratory a laser beam is passed through the mixi... more In this simple experiment for an undergraduate laboratory a laser beam is passed through the mixing zone of two liquids with different refractive indices. The spatial variation of the refractive index, at different times during the mixing, can be determined from the observed deflection of the beam.
Peter Kropotkin's work offers an insight into the workings of pre-state as well as state soci... more Peter Kropotkin's work offers an insight into the workings of pre-state as well as state societies. This paper utilizes Kropotkin's notion of 'mutual aid' and argues for a consideration of mode of thought (rather than mode of production), both in the analysis of certain kinds of stateless societies and in the analysis of differences between socie- ties of differing levels
Introduction This paper is an attempt to explain the settlement patterns of Basarwa now living on... more Introduction This paper is an attempt to explain the settlement patterns of Basarwa now living on the Ghanzi ranches, in the central-western Kalahari desert of Botswana. My view is that the present situation there is best seen in the light of the history of the ranching area, ...
... The latter, classificalogical systems, include terminologies of 'Iroquois', 'D... more ... The latter, classificalogical systems, include terminologies of 'Iroquois', 'Dravidian', 'Crow', and 'Omaha' types, and here ... with the evolution of sexual taboos and other aspects of symbolic culture (cf. ... is that the earliest system was universal, but of course not all kinship systems are. ...
... Page 2. BOOK REVIEWS 571 historiography epitomized by early twentieth century writer Heinrich... more ... Page 2. BOOK REVIEWS 571 historiography epitomized by early twentieth century writer Heinrich Vedeer. ... University of Edinburgh ALAN BARNARD The Livingstones at Kolobeng 1847-1852, by Janet Wagner Parsons. The Botswana Society and Pula Press, Gaborone, 1997. ...
Recent thinking sees the earliest Khoekhoe as a kind of San with livestock. Eighteenth-century t... more Recent thinking sees the earliest Khoekhoe as a kind of San with livestock. Eighteenth-century travellers sometimes seem to have seen San as a kind of Khoekhoe without livestock. Classic ethnographic sources saw Khoekhoe and San as related peoples, one with livestock and one without. Some in recent years have suggested that Khoekhoe and San are unstable ethnicities, shifting back and forth with the acquisition and loss of livestock. Is there a correct view? This paper attempts to answer that question. One theme of the paper is the idea that the acquisition of livestock by twentieth-century Khoe-speaking hunter-gatherers might serve as an analogy for deciphering similar processess among early Khoekhoe. The shifting lifestyles from hunter to herder and back again in the Cape are now well documented in the historical and archaeological records. Similar processes have been observed by ethnographers in the Kalahari since the 1970s. Another theme is the more theoretical concern of Khoek...
In this simple experiment for an undergraduate laboratory a laser beam is passed through the mixi... more In this simple experiment for an undergraduate laboratory a laser beam is passed through the mixing zone of two liquids with different refractive indices. The spatial variation of the refractive index, at different times during the mixing, can be determined from the observed deflection of the beam.
Peter Kropotkin's work offers an insight into the workings of pre-state as well as state soci... more Peter Kropotkin's work offers an insight into the workings of pre-state as well as state societies. This paper utilizes Kropotkin's notion of 'mutual aid' and argues for a consideration of mode of thought (rather than mode of production), both in the analysis of certain kinds of stateless societies and in the analysis of differences between socie- ties of differing levels
Introduction This paper is an attempt to explain the settlement patterns of Basarwa now living on... more Introduction This paper is an attempt to explain the settlement patterns of Basarwa now living on the Ghanzi ranches, in the central-western Kalahari desert of Botswana. My view is that the present situation there is best seen in the light of the history of the ranching area, ...
... The latter, classificalogical systems, include terminologies of 'Iroquois', 'D... more ... The latter, classificalogical systems, include terminologies of 'Iroquois', 'Dravidian', 'Crow', and 'Omaha' types, and here ... with the evolution of sexual taboos and other aspects of symbolic culture (cf. ... is that the earliest system was universal, but of course not all kinship systems are. ...
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