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Bibliography: pages 131-146. ; There is presently considerable debate as to the forms of relationships established between hunter-gatherers and their non-forager neighbours and whether relationships which are documented as having been established significantly affected these hunter-gatherer societies. In southern Africa, particular attention has been paid to the effects of such contact on hunter- gatherer communities of the south-western Cape and the Kalahari. The aim of this thesis has been to assess the nature and extent of relationships established between the south-eastern San and southern Nguni and Sotho communities and to identify the extent to which the establishment of these relationships may have brought about changes in the political, social and religious systems of south- eastern hunter-gatherers. General patterns characterising interaction between a number of San and non-San hunter-gatherer societies and farming communities outside the study area are identified and are combined with archaeological and historiographical information to model relationships between the south-eastern San and southern Nguni and Sotho communities. The established and possible effects of these relationships on some south-eastern San groups are presented as well as some of the possible forms in which changes in San religious ideology and ritual practice resultant upon contact were expressed in the rock art. It is suggested that the ideologies of many south-eastern San communities, rather than being characterised by continuity throughout the contact period, were significantly influenced by the ideological systems of the southern Nguni and Sotho and that paintings at the caves of Melikane and upper Mangolong, as well as comments made upon these paintings by the 19th century San informant, Qing, should be interpreted with reference to the religious ideologies and ritual practices of the southern Nguni and Sotho as well as those of the San. Other rock paintings in areas where contact between the south-eastern San and black farming communities was prolonged and symbiotic may need to be similarly interpreted.

Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note on Orthography -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Synopsis of Book -- Outline of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: Being Other-than-Human: Ontological Mutability and Experience -- References -- Chapter 3: Monsters and Carnivory: Tolerance of Ontological Ambiguity -- Carnivory and Cannibalism: The Human Meat Eater's Dilemma (Especially Animists') -- References -- Chapter 4: Experiencing Transformation -- … Through the Imagination -- … Through the Body -- Mimesis and Metamorphosis -- Identity and Alterity -- References -- Chapter 5: The Enchantment and Disenchantment of the World of the San -- Place Legends and Myths -- Intersection of the World of Myth and Spirits with the Lived-in World -- The Impact of the World of Myth on the Real World (and on Being-in-the-World) -- The Disenchanted-and Re-enchanting-Present -- Conclusion: A "Sense of Place" -- References -- Chapter 6: (S)animism and Other Animisms -- "Foraging for Ideas": The Impact of Bantu-Speaking Neighbors on San Ontology -- Other Hunter-Gatherers: Eastern Arctic Inuit -- The Animal Turn in the West's Two Cultures -- Baron von Uexküll: "A Kind of Biologist-Shaman" -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Ontological Ambiguity and Anthropological Astonishment -- S(animism) and the "Re-animation" of Western Thought -- "The Anthropology of Ontology": A Surfeit of Wonder? -- San Studies and the "Ontological Turn" -- San Ontology and Perspectivism -- Ontological Identity and Alterity: Ground-and Grounding-of the Sense of Wonder -- References -- Correction to: Human-Animal Relationships in San and Hunter-Gatherer Cosmology, Volume II -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: A Lion Transformation -- Appendix 2: A Baboon Transformation -- References -- Index.

A review essay covering books by: 1) De Jongh, Michael, Roots and Routes: Karretjie People of the Great Karoo: The Marginalisation of a South African First People (2012); 2) Glyn, Patricia, What Dawid Knew: A Journey with the Kruipers (2013); 3) Myburgh, Paul John, The Bushman Winter Has Come: The True Stoty of the Last Band of /Gwikwe Bushmen on the Great Sand Face (2013); 4) Taylor, Julie J., Naming the Land: San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia's West Caprivi (2012); and 5) Zips-Mairitsch, Manuela, Lost Lands? (Land) Rights of the San in Botswana and the Legal Concept of Indigeneity in Africa (2013).

The Politics of Egalitarianism -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. The Politics and Practices of Egalitarianism -- Chapter 1. ALL PEOPLE ARE (NOT) GOOD -- Chapter 2 COMMUNITY, STATE, AND QUESTIONS OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION IN KARL MARX'S ETHNOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS -- Chapter 3. SUBTLE MATTERS OF THEORY AND EMPHASIS -- Chapter 4. "THE ORIGINAL AFFLUENT SOCIETY": FOUR DECADES ON -- Chapter 5. THE ORIGINAL AFFLUENT SOCIETY -- Chapter 6. ON THE POLITICS OF BEING JEWISH IN A MULTIRACIAL STATE -- PART II. The Kalahari Then and Now -- Chapter 7. THE LION/BUSHMAN RELATIONSHIP IN NYAE NYAE IN THE 1950S