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