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

Tomaselli, Keyan G.

doi:10.1080/08949468.2001.9966818

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“…The research efforts by CCMS are diverse and appear haphazardly organised or based on students' whims and preferences. These include: the production of ethnographic film, multi-vocal epistemologies (Dyll-Myklebust 2013), narrative analysis, semiotics (Tomaselli 2001a), tourist analyses (Barnabas 2010;Peters 2013;Tomaselli 2011;Wang 2001), art studies (Barnabas 2010, Finlay andBarnabas 2012;Lange et al 2013), and rock art studies (Tomaselli 2001b). I mention here also that the work of Shane Moran (2009) and Michael Wessels (2010) has equally attempted to shift the boundaries of San scholarship, albeit through the deployment of different literary, textual, translation and theoretical strategies.…”

Section: Deepening Anthropologies: Hyper-reflexivity and Research Intmentioning

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Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse

Ellis

2014

Critical Arts

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This article engages with the concept of authenticity as deployed in anthropology. The first section critiques authenticity as a simple reference to cultural purity, a traditional isomorphism or historical verisimilitude or as an 'ethnographic authenticity'. Demarcation of authenticity must take into account philosophical literature that argues that authenticity is an existential question of the 'modern' era. Thus, authenticity is offered to us as individuals as a remedy for the maladies of modernity: alienation, anomie and alterity. Authenticity is then discussed as a question of value within an economy of cultural politics that often draws on simulacra, creating cultural relics of dubious origin. The final section discusses various methodological failures and problematiques that are highlighted by the concern for, and scrutiny of, authenticity. The first is the simulacral failure. The subjects of anthropology are mostly real flesh-and-blood people-on-theground with real needs. In contrast is the simulacral subject, the brand, the tourist image, the media image or the ever-familiar hyper-real bushmen. Lastly, the article considers what Spivak calls 'withholding'-a resistance to authentic representation by the Other. Resistance suggests a need for a radically altered engagement with the Other that includes both a deepening, and an awareness, of anthropology as a process of common ontological unfolding. Prelude What are the ends of authenticity? Where does a discourse of authenticity lead? As Walter Benjamin (1969) and Theodor Adorno (1964) watched the world plunge into William Ellis World War II, they viewed the very 'modern' angst that is authenticity as pathology of power and capital. Benjamin (in Jay 2006) saw in talk of authenticity the growth of fascism (as a political arm of capital) and eventually war. Adorno (1964, 1987, 2003) saw the extermination of the inauthentic and migrants by those who perceived themselves and their kin as autochthonous. Authenticity suggests: 'All arrivals are to be excluded and if they do not move they will be made to do so.

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Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse

Ellis

2014

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“…Cybertracker.org was originally developed by Louis Liebenberg for working with indigenous expert trackers in Southern Africa with super-lative tracking skills and deep local spatial knowledge of their environments for wildlife tracking and monitoring. (Liebenberg et al, 1999;Tomaselli, 2001;CyberTracker Conservation, 2007;IPACC, 2007;Elbroch et al, 2011). CT is an open source software developed and extended into several other fields besides wildlife/ecological monitoring, and many other locations, besides Southern Africa.…”

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Eliciting Local Spatial Knowledge for Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

Spanu

McCall

2013

International Journal of E-Planning Research

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CyberTracker (CT) participatory field data collection software is used as an element of Participatory GIS for acquiring, geo-referencing, storing and transferring local spatial knowledge. It has been developed initially for animal tracking, ecological surveys and conservation management activities, but has extended into the social environment for health and welfare surveys, and it is being applied to social data collection about hazards, vulnerability and coping mechanisms in disaster risk management. This article provides a critical guide of CyberTracker under field conditions with representative participation. The practical experiences informing this critical review of field operations come from employing CyberTracker with staff of NGOs and local government agencies in a workshop in two hazard-prone communities in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.

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The Literacy of Tracking

Tomaselli

Grant

2019

Critical Arts

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

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse

Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse

Eliciting Local Spatial Knowledge for Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

The Literacy of Tracking

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