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FEATURE: FILM AND HISTORY IN AFRICA

The Many Myths of Laurens van der Post: Van der Post and Bushmen in the Television Series Lost World of Kalahari (1958)

Pages 47-60 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • Rosenstone , R. A. Dec. 1988 . Dec. , 1173 – 85 . History in Images/History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film, American Historical Review, 93,5
  • Wilmsen , E. 1999 . ‘Knowledge as the Source of Progress’ . Visual Anthropology , 12 : 239
  • Ibid., 240
  • See, for example, ibid., 239;E. Wilmsen, ‘Primitive Politics in Sanctified Landscapes: The Ethnographic Fictions of Laurens van der Post’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 21, 2 (June 1995), 201;and J.D.F. Jones, Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post (London, 2001), 203–24
  • Gordon , R. J. 1997 . Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925 117 – 34 . Cape Town
  • Gordon , R. J. 1992 . The Bushmen Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass Boulder Two significant contributions to this revisionist scholarship are (and E. N. Wilmsen, Land Filled With Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari (Chicago, 1989)
  • 1995 . 1 – 27 . Edwin Wilmsen has written two interesting articles relating to Van der Post's writings in relation to his ‘Bushmen myth’: Wilmsen, ‘Primitive Politics in Sanctified Landscapes’ and E.N. Wilmsen, ‘First People? Images and Imaginations in South African Iconography’, Critical Arts, 9, 2
  • van der Post , L. 1958 . The Lost World of the Kalahari 13 London
  • Ibid., 253
  • Wilmsen . ‘Knowledge as the Source of Progress’, 232–3
  • Ibid., 241
  • Tomaselli , K. G. 1995 . Media Recuperations of the San . Critical Arts , 9 ( 2 ) (Wilmsen, ‘First People?’ and Gordon, Picturing Bushmen.
  • Wilmsen . ‘First People?’, 14–15, and Jones, Storyteller, 214
  • Wilmsen . ‘Primitive Politics in Sanctified Landscapes’, 206
  • Gordon . Picturing Bushmen 19–28
  • Ibid., 23
  • Jones . Storyteller 221–2
  • Tomaselli . ‘Media Recuperations of the San’, 1–21

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