The Khoe and San
The Khoe and San

Author: Shelagh M. Willet

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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Compiled by the University of Botswana which houses a unique collection of contemporary published and unpublished written material on the indigenous minority of Southern Africa. The aim was to make this literature available in one collection, and thus promote research on, with, and by, this minority. The volume lists over a thousand bibliographic entries covering the social sciences, languages and history, as well as publications from national and regional San organisations. Short abstracts of each entry are linked to a list of keywords and authors.

Exotics at Home
Exotics at Home

Author: Micaela di Leonardo

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-03-16

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780226472645

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What is the exotic, after all? In this study, Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of cultural difference. Focusing on the intimate and shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic Others and the practice of anthropology, that profession assumed to be America's Guardian of the Offbeat, she casts new light on gender, race, and the public sphere in America's past and present. Chicago's 1893 Columbian World Exposition and today's college-town ethnic boutiques frame di Leonardo's century-long analysis.

The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Author: Megan Biesele

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1845459970

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The Ju/’hoan San, or Ju/’hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this group in the writings of Richard Lee, Lorna Marshall, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and films by John Marshall includes extensive information on their traditional ways of life, this book continues the story as it has unfolded since 1990. Peopled with accounts of and from contemporary Ju>/’hoan people, the book gives newly-literate Ju/’hoansi the chance to address the world with their own voices. In doing so, the images and myths of the Ju/’hoan and other San (previously called “Bushmen”) as either noble savages or helpless victims are discredited. This important book demonstrates the responsiveness of current anthropological advocacy to the aspirations of one of the best-known indigenous societies.

Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites

Author: Lorna Marshall

Publisher: Peabody Museum Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0873659082

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Marshall leads the reader through the intricacies, ambiguities, and silences of !Kung beliefs. Based on fieldwork among the Bushmen of the Kalahari in the early 1950s, she presents the culture, beliefs, and spirituality of one of the last true hunting-and-gathering peoples by focusing on members of different bands as they reveal their own views.

The Future of Luxury Brands
The Future of Luxury Brands

Author: Annamma Joy

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 3110732750

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The concepts of artification and sustainability are now both at the heart of luxury brand marketing strategies; artification as an ongoing process of transformation in the world of art and sustainability as an indispensable response to the issues of our times. The Future of Luxury Brands examines three interrelated luxury-marketing segments—the art world, fashion and fine wines including hospitality services—through the dual lenses of sustainability and artification. From safeguarding human and natural resources to upholding labor rights and protecting the environment, sustainability has taken center stage in consumer consciousness, embodying both moral authority and sound business practices. At the same time, artification—the process by which non-art is reconceived as art—applies the cachet of art to business, affording commercial products the sacred status accorded to works of art. When commercial products enter the realm of aesthetic creation, artification and consumer engagement inevitably increases. This pioneering book examining artification and sustainability as strategic pillars of marketing strategies in the luxury industry will be essential reading for practitioners working in luxury product companies, as also students of luxury brand marketing.