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Alan Barnard
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 104
Citations - 2965
Alan Barnard is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kinship & Palliative care. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 100 publications receiving 2838 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan Barnard include University of Cape Town & University College London.
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Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples
TL;DR: A survey of Khoisan Ethnography can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the origins, origins, and history of the Khoe peoples and their relations among them.
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Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Alan Barnard,Jonathan Spencer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analytical table of contents, including a glossary and a biographical appendix, with a list of contributors and contributors of the paper's authors.
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History and Theory in Anthropology
TL;DR: The second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on all the most important topics in the field as mentioned in this paper.
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The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass.
Alan Barnard,Robert J. Gordon +1 more
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Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
Jacqueline S. Solway,Richard B. Lee,Alan Barnard,M. G. Bicchieri,Alec C. Campbell,James Denbow,Robert Gordon,Mathias Guenther,Henry Harpending,Patricia Draper,Robert K. Hitchcock,Tim Ingold,L. Jacobson,Susan Kent,Pnina Motzafi-Haller,Thomas C. Patterson,Carmel Schrire,Bruce G. Trigger,Polly Wiessner,Edwin N. Wilmsen,John E. Yellen,Aram A. Yengoyan +21 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the history of two San groups, one largely dependent on its Bantuspeaking neighbours and the other substantially autonomous, and found that contact may take many forms, not all of which lead to dependency, abandonment of foraging, or incorporation into "more powerful" social formations.