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Article: The Kalahari Ethnographies (1896-98) of Siegfried Passarge: nineteenth-century Khoisan- and Bantu-speaking peoples.(Review)
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EDWIN N. WILMSEN (ed.), The Kalahari Ethnographies (1896-98) of Siegfried Passarge: nineteenth-century Khoisan- and Bantu-speaking peoples, trans. Edwin N. Wilmsen, Edwin Wilmsen and Klaus Keuthmann, Leander Gloversmith and Caroline Jeanneret. Research in Khoisan Studies 13, Cologne: Rudiger Koppe, 1997, 332 pp., DM 78.00, ISBN 3 89645 141.
Among English-speaking workers in the field of Bushman and hunter-gatherer studies this is long-awaited work, especially its centrepiece, the fieldwork-based monograph Die Buschmanner der Kalahari, which was published in its final version in 1907. While snippets from this early ethnography, by a Prussian geographer, have been ...