Writing in the San/d

Keyan G. Tomaselli is professor and chair of Culture, Communication and Media Studies (CCMS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. He has written extensively on his Kalahari research in Visual Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Critical Arts and Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies. He is author of Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation.

Renowned international scholar Keyan Tomaselli has long been an advocate for forcing cultural studies outside of the confines of academia and into real life situations. Through the essays collected in Writing in the San/d, we witness the practice and evolution of a "reverse cultural studies" as Tomaselli and his colleagues immerse themselves in actual fieldwork situations in Southern Africa with revealing and often unexpected consequences. The dual awareness of self and subject explored through writing presents a model for students and academics to develop fieldwork practices for cultural studies in a variety of settings. As such the collection makes an excellent companion to contemporary cultural studies of indigenous populations in South Africa and the surrounding region.

• 0 Introduction: Setting the SceneChapter 1 Representing RepresentationChapter 2 Romancing the Kalihari: Personal Journeys of Methodological DiscoveryChapter 3 'Op die Grond': Writing in the San/d, Surviving CrimeChapter 4 A Letter to Myself—My Trip to NgwatleChapter 5 Voices from the Kalahari: Methodology and the AbsurdChapter 6 Meeting Points: Symbiotic Spaces7 Wit Meisie /Morning Star: Encounters in the Desert8 In the Sun with Silikat9 Orality, Rhythmography and Visual Representation