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The hunter-gatherers of southern Africa known as 'Bushmen' or 'San' are not one single ethnic group, but several. They speak a diverse variety of languages, and have many different settlement patterns, kinship systems and economic practices. The fact that we think of them as a unity is not as strange as it may seem, for they share a common origin: they are an original hunter-gatherer population of southern Africa with a history of many thousands of years on the subcontinent. Drawing on his four decades of field research in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, Alan Barnard provides a detailed account of Bushmen or San, covering ethnography, archaeology, folklore, religious studies and rock-art studies as well as several other fields. Its wide coverage includes social development and politics, both historically and in the present day, helping us to reconstruct both human prehistory and a better understanding of ourselves.

Ethnologie. --- Ethnology --- Ethnology. --- Religionsausübung. --- San (African people). --- San --- Sozialanthropologie. --- Sozioökonomischer Wandel. --- Verwandtschaft. --- Vor- und Frühgeschichte. --- Wildbeuter. --- Kalahari. --- Southern Africa. --- Südafrika

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Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist. This volume, using the lens of language, offers us a window into the inner workings of twenty-first-century hunter-gatherer societies - how they survive and how they interface with societies that produce more. It challenges long-held assumptions about the limits on social dynamism in hunter-gatherer societies to show that their languages are no different either typologically or sociolinguistically from other languages. With its worldwide coverage, this volume serves as a report on the state of hunter-gatherer societies at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and readers in all geographical areas will find arguments of relevance here.

Asian languages --- African languages --- Amerindian languages --- South American Indian languages --- Oceanic languages --- Language and culture --- Languages in contact --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting --- Areal linguistics --- Culture and language --- Culture --- History --- E-books --- Historische Sprachwissenschaft. --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Language and culture. --- Languages in contact. --- Linguistik. --- Soziolinguistik. --- Sprachtypologie. --- Sprachursprung. --- Wildbeuter. --- 2000-2099.