essay
The Bushman in history
Bushmen : San hunters and herders of southern Africa • Cape Town And Pretoria • Published In 1978 • Pages: 76-87
By: Willcox, A. R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work describes one of the very early contacts that Europeans (the Dutch) had with the San in 1655 and their relations and conflicts from that period to about 1885. Several examples of San art are presented in the text depicting this early contact era and showing whites with their muskets, powder horns, and horses
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Representative art
- External relations
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1650s-1880s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- South Africa, southern Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alex R. Willcox
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79302323
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)