Dorothea Bleek : A life of scholarship /

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Dorothea Bleek (1873-1948) devoted her life to completing the {u2018}bushman researches{u2019} that her father and aunt had begun in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. This research was partly a labour of familial loyalty to Wilhelm, the acclaimed linguist and language scholar of ninetee...

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Autor principal: Weintroub, Jill (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bleek, D. F. > (Dorothea Frances), > 1873-1948.
Women ethnologists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Femmes ethnologues > Afrique australe > Biographies.
Art san > Recherche > Afrique australe.
San (Peuple d'Afrique) > Recherche > Afrique australe.
Women ethnologists > Africa, Southern > Biography.
Art, San > Research > Africa, Southern.
San (African people) > Research > Africa, Southern.
Southern Africa.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; A note on terms and languages; Map; Introduction: Revisiting the life and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek; 1 Colonial childhood, European learning; In Europe; Intellectual influences; Trips and notebooks; Life at home; 2 Tracing rock art in the field with Helen Tongue, 1905-1907; Rock art and knowledge making; Selectivity and subject matter; Invisible assistants; Learning in the field; Towards a systematic study; 3 Return to the Kalahari, July-August 1913; Taming the landscape; Travelling to Kakia; Making subjects
  • 4 Ambiguities of interaction: South West Africa, Angola and Tanganyika, 1920-1930Windhoek and Sandfontein, 1920-1921; Mapping language, trade, genealogies and boundaries; Photography; Sound; Objects; Angola, 1925; Tanganyika, 1930; Maturing science and making 'bushmen'; 5 Testimony of the rocks: A 'cave journey', 1928-1932; The edited book; In the field; The field notebooks; Science, society and visiting prehistorians; Seeing for herself; 6 Intimacy and marginality in rock art recording, 1932-1940; Research by correspondence; Negotiating the field; 'Co-production' of knowledge
  • Knowing the fieldPackaging field notes; Cost of war; 7 Making the bushman dictionary, 1934-1956; Compiling and Publishing; Finding a publisher; From Bleek to Scott; Conversation in writing; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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