Barnard, Alan: A.Barnard@ed.ac.uk
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_anthropology/barnard_alan
Alan Barnard has done fieldwork with Bushmen (or San), Khoekhoe and other population groups
in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. He has written some seventy articles and eight books, and
his work has been translated into more than ten languages. Amongst his latest projects is an ESRC
three years award to work with Gertrud Boden on issues of kinship and language convergence. The
project is part of a much larger EuroBABEL ‘endangered languages’ grant.
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Boden, Gertrud: gboden@gmx.de ; http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/boden.php
Gertrud received her Ph.D for research on social change among the Khwe in West Caprivi/Namibia.
Her next project involves working with Alan Barnard on a EuroBABEL endangered languages grant:
"Kinship systems in southern African non-Bantu languages: documentation, comparison, and
historical analysis".
A link to theTaa-project within Dobes : http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/taa
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Botelle, Andrew: andrewbotelle@yahoo.co.uk
Andy runs a film company in Namibia, Mamokobo VIdeo and Research, with a particular focus on
issues of the environment. Andy has made some very interesting work about Hai//om shamans.
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Dieckmann, Ute: udieckmann@lac.org.na
Ute has been working with Hai||om in Namibia since 1999, her main areas of focus are ethnicity and
indigenous issues, identity and representation, and nature conservation and its impact on San. Ute is
also engaged in a cultural heritage project (Xoms |Omis Project, http://xoms-omis.org/index.html), the
main objective of which is to research, maintain, protect and promote the cultural and environmental
heritage of the Etosha National Park and its surrounding area.
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Giraudo, Rachel: rachel.giraudo@csun.edu ;
http://www.csun.edu/csbs/departments/anthropology/faculty_pages/giraudo.html
Rachel F. Giraudo is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the California State University,
Northridge. In 2011, she completed her PhD dissertation, Intangible Heritage and Tourism
Development at the Tsodilo World Heritage Site, at the University of California, Berkeley. Rachel has
research interests in cultural heritage, identity politics, tourism, and development among the San in
southern Africa.
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Grant, Julie: JulieGrant70@hotmail.com
http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/research_student_profiles/grant_julie
Julie is a PhD candidate at the Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University and a research
affiliate in the Centre of Culture, Communication and Media (CCMS), at the University of Kwa-Zulu
Natal. Julie is writing a doctoral thesis regarding South Africa’s land reform policy, specifically
exploring the outcomes of the ‡Khomani land claim in relation to livelihood strategies, cultural identity
and service delivery.
Julie first visited the ‡Khomani of South Africa in 2006 and conducted fieldwork there in 2007-2008.
She maintains close contact with the community and returns periodically to the fieldsite.
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Güldemann, Tom: gueldema@rz.uni-leipzig.de http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gueldema/index.html
Prof. Tom Güldemann
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften,
Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
Germany
Specialist in San languages
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Haacke, Wilfrid H. G.; Professor of African Languages, University of
Namibia: whaacke@gmail.com P.O. Box 11585, Klein Windhoek, Namibia
Wilfrid, Namibian by birth, studied Bantu languages (i.a. Otjiherero)
initially. From 1973-83 he worked as language planner for "Nama/ Damara"
(Khoekhoegowab), developing teaching materials for and in Khoekhoegowab. In
1983 he was appointed to set up a Department of African Languages at the
Academy for Tertiary Education, Windhoek, which was superseded by the
University of Namibia in 1992. His primary interest lies in Tonology,
Syntax, Morphology, Lexicography, Dialectography of Khoekhoegowab and
Comparative studies of Central Khoesaan (Khoe) dialects. Wilfrid has retired from the University of
Namibia in 2012 and is now affiliated to the Department of General Linguistics of the University of
Stellenbosch as a Research Associate.
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Hays, Jennifer: jennifer.hays@uit.no; jelyha@gmail.com
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Comparative Indigenous Studies, Department of Social
Anthropology, University of Tromso, 9037 Tromso, Norway
Jennifer has been working with San communities in Botswana and Namibia since 1998 and her main
areas of focus are education, self-determination, and indigenous rights (especially educational
rights), corporate responsibility to indigenous communities, and formalization of traditional skills.
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Hitchcock, Robert K. hitchc16@msu.edu
Robert K. Hitchcock is Professor of Geography and is a core faculty member in the Center for Global
Change and Earth Observations (CGCEO) at Michigan State University. He is also an adjunct
member of the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at MSU and at the University of New Mexico
in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He serves currently as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Kalahari Peoples Fund, a non-profit 501c3 organization that assists poor people in southern Africa.
Originally trained as an archaeologist and anthropologist, Hitchcock has carried out research and
development work in North America, southern, eastern, and central Africa, Latin America (Guatemala
and Peru), and Hawaii. Over the past four decades (1975-present), Hitchcock has served as an
international development consultant, social specialist, and advisor to governments (Botswana,
Lesotho, Namibia, Somalia, Swaziland, the United States) and international agencies on issues
relating to resettlement, land use planning, local level development, drought, and disaster
responses, and community-based natural resource management. Much of his professional career
has been spent working on issues relating to the San (Bushmen) of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Link to more extensive biography
Link to Hitchcock CV
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Keeney, Bradford: bradfordkeeney@shakingmedicine.com; www.shakingmedicine.com ;
www.thecreativetherapist.com
Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. is Professor of Transformative Studies, California Institute of Integral
Studies, San Francisco; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Rock Art Research Institute,
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. The author of over 30 books, he has
worked with men and women n/om kxaosi in Botswana and Namibia. He brings a Batesonian inspired
cybernetic epistemology and an experiential-interactional approach into the field.
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Klocke-Daffa, Sabine: sabine.klocke-daffa@ethno.uni-tuebingen.de;
www.uni-tuebingen.de/ETHNOLOGIE/institut/sabine_klocke_daffa.html
Sabine has done field work among the Namibian Khoekhoen since 1992. She
received her PH.D. for research on exchange systems, rituals and informal
forms of social support. She is currently working on issues of social security
in times of AIDS in Namibia.
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Konrad, Robert, robert.konrad@perelin.tk
PhD candidate at the University of Vienna in Social and Cultural
Anthrpology. Working at the Southern Africa Documentation and Co-operation
Centre (SADOCC), www.sadocc.at
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Kössler, Reinhart (Prof.): r-koessler@gmx.de
Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, Windausstr. 16, D-79110 Freiburg
Relevant field work since 1995 has included work on Gibeon and Berseba
in southern Namibia, on which a good number of articles have appeared,
also a boot, In Search of Survival and Dignity. Two Traditional
Communities in Southern Namibia under South African rule. Later Prof. Kössler became
interested in commemoration events in southern and central Namibia,
which is on-going research with a number of articles published. He is
considering a book publication at this stage. Another line of interest
relevant to this site's concern is on traditional authorities in southern
Africa, where he hopes to get a research project under way soon, and this
would most likely include a component relevant to Nama in Namibia and
also in the Northern Cape.
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Krämer, Mario: mario.kraemer@netcologne.de; http://www.fb1.uni-siegen.de/soziologie/mitarbeiter/kraemer/
FB 1 / Soziologie, Universität Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein Str. 2, 57068 Siegen (Germany)
Fields of research: Political Anthropology; Violence, Conflict, and Order; Development Sociology;
regional focus on Southern Africa
Current research: "Democratisation and neotraditional chieftaincy in Southern Africa"; comparative
research project on the transformations of chieftaincy on the background of democratisation and
development in Namibia (Topnaar Traditional Authority, Walvis Bay) and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Ximba & Ngcolosi Traditional Councils, eThekwini Municipality)
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Low, Chris: chris.low@africa.ox.ac.uk; chris@thinkingthreads.com; www.thinkingthreads.com
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, African Studies, Oxford University.
Chris has been working on KhoeSan issues since 1999. Chris’s primary interests concern health,
healing and spirituality amongst Khoekhoe and San people and how these phenomena relate to
environmental relationships and indigenous knowledge.
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Naumann, Christfried: naumann@eva.mpg.de; http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/naumann.php
Interested in Taa/!Xoon and related languages, especially with regard
to phonetics/phonology, suprasegmental phenomena, morphology, and the
lexicon.
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Puckett, Robert Fleming : fleming.puckett@yahoo.com
D.Phil. student in Geography Brasenose College, Oxford
D.Phil. project: "The Strange Case of the Landed Poor: A Decade of Continued Poverty, Community
Divisions, and Frustrated Attempts by Outsiders to Mobilise San Bushman Communities to Establish
Long-Term Livelihoods on Their New Lands in South Africa" Fleming is currently studying the !Xun,
Khwe, and =Khomani communities of South Africa and will be spending six months doing fieldwork
there during the 2009-10 academic year.
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Sapignoli, Maria: maria@sapignoli.it msapig@essex.ac.uk
Maria is an Italian anthropologist who recently completed a doctoral dissertation at Essex University
in the United Kingdom on indigenous peoples, identity, and the politics of indigenous organizations,
with particular reference to the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana. Her doctoral
dissertation was entitled “Local Power through Globalized Indigenous Identities: The San, the State,
and the International Community.” She has carried out ethnographic work in the Central Kalahari
Game Reserve (CKGR), in the resettlement sites of New Xade and Kuadwane and did
anthropological analyses of the CKGR Botswana High Court legal cases of 2004-2006, and 2010-
2011.She has worked in the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues in New York and at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy
and for various non-government organizations in Africa and Central America.
She is the author of ‘Indigeneity and the Expert: Negotiating Identity in the Case of the Central
Kalahari Game Reserve’, in Law and Anthropology, Michael Freeman and David Napier, eds. pp. 247-
268. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) and Indigenato Estrategies Politiche in
Botswana. Il Caso dei Boscimani del Central Kalahari Game Reserve. D. Phil., Facolta di Lettere E
Filosfia, Universita degli Studi de Bologna, Bologna, Italia (2007). She is the co-author, with Robert
K. Hitchcock of Social Impact Assessment Anthropological Analysis of the Ghanzi Copper Project
Area, Western Botswana. (Gaborone, Botswana: Loci Environmental and Windhoek, Namibia:
SIAPAC, 2011).
Link to Maria's CV
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Schenck, Marcia C. : mcschenc@princeton.edu marciac.schenck.googlepages.com
B.A. history, Mount Holyoke College. Project: Honors Thesis: “Land, Water, Truth and Love –
Visions of Identity and Land Access: From Bain’s Bushmen to ‡Khomani San”
Research interests: ethnicity, identity politics, land rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, oral history, the
role of memory, development.
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Strong, Adrian: adrian.strong@gmail.com
Adrian worked for the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia in the 1980s based at
/Gautcha and working alongside Ju/’hoansi to build up their communities and farming settlements.
He remained on the board of the Foundation until he left Namibia in 1997. During this time, he
became close friends with a number of Ju/’hoansi and with John Marshall. He subsequently became
a filmmaker in Australia, working with indigenous communities there and is currently completing a
PhD on filmic representation of the Ju/hoansi, focusing on Marshall's work. In 2007 he revisited Nyae
Nyae to shoot footage for his thesis film which investigates Marshall’s legacy and the current
problems facing Ju/’hoan communities in Nyae Nyae.
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Sullivan, Sian: s.sullivan@bbk.ac.uk ; www.bbk.ac.uk/geog/about/ssullivan
Sian has worked extensively in Namibia on issues of ethnobotany, environment and resource use
and much of her focus has concerned the Damara.
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Sylvain, Renee: rsylvain@uoguelph.ca
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of
Guelph
Renee has worked with San communities in Namibia since 1996. Her research
focuses on the intersections of gender, race, ethnic, and class inequalities
and indigenous people's rights.
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Taylor, Julie: http://kalahariborderlands.googlepages.com/aboutjulie
juliejennifertaylor@googlemail.com
With an anthropology/development background, Julie carried out her MPhil and
DPhil fieldwork between 2004-2006 in West Caprivi, Namibia, with Khwe
communities. Her DPhil focused on the socio-political implications of
environmental NGO initiatives on San ethnicity and identity-building. Julie was
in the Development Studies department at Oxford University. Her thesis and
publications can be found at http://kalahariborderlands.googlepages.com/
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Widlok, Thomas: Thomas.Widlok@mpi.nl http://www.ru.nl/caos/virtuele_map/widlok/
Thomas Widlok has worked with San people since 1987 when he went to NyaeNyae in Namibia and
met filmmaker John Marshall. Over the years he has done more than three years of field research in
Namibia, mostly with the =Akhoe Hai//om of Mangetti but also with the Topnaar of the Khuiseb. After
doing his PhD (LSE 1994) he published an ethnographic monograph (Living on Mangetti, OUP 1999)
and numerous articles. The last five years he has worked on a multi-media documentation of =Akhoe
Hai//om language and culture (http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/akhoe) and he is now about to start
a comparative research project on hunter-gatherer mobility (http://www.sfb806.de/). He also does
field research in Australia and is currently Professor for Anthropology at Radboud University
Nijmegen.
Widlok, Thomas: Thomas.Widlok@mpi.nl
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