Miscast: The place of the museum in negotiating the Bushman past and present

Rock art, the art of tracking, and cybertracking: Demystifying the “Bushmen” in the information age

“…It is significant perhaps that Liebenberg's book, The Art of Tracking, is listed in the publisher's 1998/99 Academic Catalogue under "Natural History" [28]. The recent acrimony engendered by the location of San exhibits and dioramas in South Africa's Natural History museums, then, seems not to have been understood by the publisher [Douglas and Law 1997;Jackson and Robins 1999]. Thus, aside from drastically misrepresenting the way the San actually come to acquire and develop their tracking skills, these media provide justifications for any number of fundamentalist ethnic, religious and other factions.…”