ROBERT JAMES GORDON

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ROBERT JAMES GORDON 2019

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African Studies, The University of Vermont

Research Associate, The University of the Free State Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study

Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution

Department of Anthropology Williams Building

72 University Place The University of Vermont

Burlington, Vt.05405 Tel: 802-6563884

Cell: 802-999-1909 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION:

B.A., University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. 1968 Majors: Social Anthropology and African Government and Law

B.A., University of Stellenbosch. 1970 Honors: Social Anthropology

M.A., University of Stellenbosch. 1972 Major: Social Anthropology Thesis: “Some Sociological Aspects of Verbal Communication in a

(Namibian) Damara Village”

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1977 Major: Cultural Anthropology Dissertation: “A Study of Return Migration and Labor Turnover in

Namibia” LANGUAGES:

English, Afrikaans, German, Dutch and Tok Pisin FIELD WORK:

Since 1968 and continuing up to the present I have done extensive field-work using a variety of techniques in a number of urban and rural situations in Namibia (intermittently but longer spells include 1973, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2016), Southern Africa (1986, 1989, 1995, especially Lesotho 1991-93) and Papua New Guinea (1976-79 and 1980).

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Smithsonian Institute Research Associate,2019-2023 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Fellow 2019. University of the Free State Research Associate, 2017- University of Vermont, Professor Emeritus, 2016- University of the Free State Senior Professor, 2012-2017. Free State University Research Associate, 2004 to 2012.

University of Vermont, Full Professor, 1995 to 2016. Union Institute, Adjunct Professor, 1998 to 2001.

University of Vermont, Associate Professor, 1985 to 1995.

Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho, Head of Research Division and Associate Research Professor, 1991-93. University of Vermont, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, 1979- 1985. University of Papua New Guinea, Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology, 1976-79. University of Illinois, Teaching and Research Assistant, 1975-76.

Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company, Personnel Officer, 1973-74.

University of Illinois, Teaching and Research Assistant, 1972-73.

University of Stellenbosch, Junior Lecturer and Technical Assistant, 1970-72.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

Anthropology of development problems, the role of law (and the “state”), qualitative methodology, history of social science, colonialism, visual anthropology. (Southern) Africa, Oceania

PROFESSIONAL HONORS:

B.A. (Honors) awarded cum laude M.A. awarded cum laude Elected to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1976

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Distinguished alumnus lecture to African Studies Program, University of Illinois, November 1983

University Fellow, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 1986, 1989 Hardy Chair Lecturer, Hartwick College, Oneonta, January 1987 and 2008 Served as an “Opponent” at the University of Helsinki, May 1995; March 2006. Invited to deliver keynote address at the Pan African Anthropological Association

Congress in Yaounde, Cameroons, September 1999 (declined). Featured Banquet Speaker, North Eastern Anthropological Association Meeting 2002

Nominated and finalist for Kroepf-Maurice Award for Excellence in Teaching 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 (nominated but declined).

Faculty Program Director of the Year at the Living/Learning Center, 2004 University of Vermont University Scholar in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2007-8 (South African) National Research Foundation Rated Researcher 2014-2019 Circle of Excellence Visiting Professor, University of Cologne 2013-2015

Outstanding Service to African Studies and Anthropology Award, Association of Africanist Anthropology. 2009

PUBLICATIONS:

A. Books, Monographs, Edited Volumes:

In Prep. The Grand Delusion: How ‘Native Experts’ field-tested Apartheid in South Africa’s colony Namibia. Under contract with Berghahnbooks. 2018 The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The ethnographic life of a ‘Luckyman’ in Africa. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2016 Moving Targets: Hunting in Contemporary Africa. Special Issue of the Journal for Contemporary African Studies (34:1) Guest Editor. 2015 Silence After Violence and the imperative to ‘speak out’. Special Issue of Acta Academica (47:1).Co-Editor with CA Williams, A.Henebury & Y.Alsheh.

2013 Re-Creating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology & Popular Culture. Washington, DC: Smithsonian. Editor with J.Bell & A.Brown.

2011 Fifty Key Anthropologists. Lead Editor with Andrew and Harriet Lyons. London: Routledge. 2010 Going Abroad: Traveling like an Anthropologist. Boulder: Paradigmpublishers. (Korean edition 2014). Spanish and Catalan translation rights bought.

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2008 Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge. Helen Tilley senior editor. Manchester University Press. (Paperback Edition 2010).

2006 Tarzan was an Eco-Tourist: Essays on the Anthropology of Adventure . Editor with L.Vivanco. New York: Berghahn.

2005 The Meaning of Inheritance: Perspectives on Namibian Inheritance Practices. Editor. Windhoek: Legal Assistance Center

2005 Talking About People: A Reader in Introductory Anthropology (4th Edition). Editor with W.A.Haviland & L.Vivanco. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2005 Customary laws on Inheritance in Namibia: Issues and questions for consideration in developing new legislation. With Mercedes Ovis. Windhoek: Legal Assistance Centre. 2004 “A Kalahari Family”. Special issue of Visual Anthropology Review 19(1& 2):102-

166. Also on CD-ROM. 2002 “Persistent Popular Images of Pastoralists”, co-editor with Corinne Kratz of Special Issue of Visual Anthropology 15(3&4):247-392. 2002 The Challenge of Anthropology within the African Renaissance. Edited with

Debie LeBeau. Windhoek: University of Namibia Press. 2001 Talking About People: A Reader in Introductory Anthropology (3rd Edition). Editor

with W.A.Haviland & L.Vivanco. San Francisco: Mayfield. 1999 The Bushman Myth and the Making of a Namibian Underclass. Second edition.

Radically revised and updated with Stuart Sholto Douglas. Boulder & Oxford: Westview.

1997 Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition. Athens: Ohio University Press and Cape Town: D. Phillip.

1995 Talking About People: A Reader for Introductory Anthropology (Second edition). Editor with W. A. Haviland. San Francisco: Mayfield.

1993 Talking About People. A Reader for Introductory Anthropology. Editor with W. A. Haviland. San Francisco: Mayfield.

1993 Behind the Headlines: Violence, Land and People in a Changing Southern Africa. Guest editor of a special issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly 17(2).

1992 The Bushman Myth and the Making of a Namibian Underclass. Boulder and

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Oxford: Westview.(Extracts from pp.195-220 reprinted in Scheper-Hughes & Bourgois eds., Violence in War and Peace, Blackwells, 2003, pp 74-76).

1987 The Past and Future of !Kung Ethnography. Co-editor with Megan Biesele. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.

1985 The Future of Former Foragers in Southern Africa and Australia. Co-editor with Carmel Schrire. Cambridge: Cultural Survival.

1985 Law and Order in the New Guinea Highlands (with Mervyn Meggitt). Hanover: University Press of New England

1981 The Plight of Peripheral People in Papua New Guinea, Volume I: The Inland Situation. Editor. Cambridge: Cultural Survival, Peabody Museum. Occasional Paper No. 7 (reprinted in 1986).

1978 Violence in Enga. Editor, Special issue of Yagl-Ambu 5(2) June:160-232.

1977 Exploring Total Institutions. Co-editor with Brett Williams. Champaign: Stipes.

1977 Mines, Masters and Migrants: Life in a Namibian Mine Compound. Johannesburg: Ravan (Extracts published as “Ja-Sager, Dummkopfe, Lugner, Faulenzer ....” in H. Melber, ed., Namibia: Kolonialismus und Widerstand. Bonn: edition Südliches Afrika 8 [1981], pp. 128-141. Also extracted as “Mines, Migrants and Protest” in C.

Allen and G. Williams, eds., The Sociology of Developing Societies: Subsaharan Africa. London: Macmillan and New York: Monthly Review Press [1982], pp. 137-141. Chapter “The World of the Black Workers” reprinted in E. Webster, et al, eds., South African Industrial Sociology Johannesburg: Ravan [1994]).

B. Published Articles, Chapters, Essays:

Submitted “The voodoo ethnologists of Omega” for a special issue of the South African Historical Journal on ‘Critical Entanglements: Colonialism, Anthropology and the Visual Arts’ edited by Caio Simoes de Araujo

Accepted “‘Little Kings’: Citizens’ ‘Erasive’ Practices in German South West Africa”

for a volume edited by M.Adhikari on Civilian-driven genocide in settler-societies and to be published by the University of Cape Town Press

In Press “’Bloody Geneva’: Questioning Expertise in Geneva” in Experts et

expertises dans les mandats de la Société des Nations. Philippe

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Bourmand, Norig Neveu & Chantal Verdeil eds. Paris: Pressses de I’INALCO (expected 2019)

2018 “Complicating histories of carnivores in Namibia: Past to Present” Journal

of Namibian Studies, 24:131-134. 2018 “Moritz Julius Bonn und die koloniale Bürokratie. Ein Schlüssel zu

seinem Liberalismus?’ in E.Grothe & J.Hacke: Liberales Denken in der Krise der

Weltkriegsepoche: Moritz Julius Bonn, Stuttgart :Steiner Verlag.pp149- 170.

2018 “Photographs as Sources for African History” (with Jonatan Kurzwelly) in

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Thomas Spear Editor. Online DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.250

2018 “How Good People Become Ridiculous: J.P.van S Bruwer, the Making of

Namibian Grand Apartheid and the decline of Volkekunde.” Journal of Southern African Studies 44(1) DOI 10.1080/63057070.20181403266 (online November 2017)

2017 “‘Taming’ Bushman farm labour: A Villeinous Era in Neo-feudal

Namibia?” Anthropology Southern Africa. 40(4):261-275

2017 “Protecting the Borders: Etiquette Manuals and Ethnology in the erstwhile SADF” Anthropology Southern Africa 40(3):157-171.

2016 “Introduction: ‘Moving Targets’: Hunting in Contemporary Africa.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies (34:1):1-6 2015 “(S)mothering the Other: Namibian Anthropology since Independence”

Journal of Namibian Studies.18:135-151. 2016 “Going for the Reds: Max Gluckman and the Anthropology of Football”

(with M.Grundlingh) in B.Schmidt-Lauber & A. Schwell (eds), Kick It! The Anthropology of European Football. Palgrave-Macmillan. Pp 21-36.

2015 “The Origins of German Scholarly Involvement in Namibia” in Gerhard

Hauck, Ilse Lenz, Ingrid Wehr & Hanns Wienold eds. Entwicklung, Gewald, Gedächtnis. Festschrift für Reinhart Kößler. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot. Pp.286-305.

2015 ”What is telling, if ‘telling is all there is?’” (with Christian Williams). Acta

Academica 47:1), 266-272.

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2014 “Max Gluckman’s Zulu fieldwork…” edited transcript of an unpublished chapter by Gluckman describing his Zulu fieldwork experiences. History in Africa 41: 183-194.

2014 “The Context of Gluckman’s Zululand Fieldwork”. History in Africa 41: 155-182.

2014 “Vogelfrei and Bestizlos, with no Concept of Property: Divergent Settler Responses to Bushmen and Damaras in German Southwest Africa” in Mohamed Adhikari, ed. Genocide on Colonial Frontiers: When hunter-

gatherers and commercial stock farmers clash. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press and New York: Berghahn. Pp.108-134.

2013 “Moritz Bonn, Southern Africa and the critique of Colonialism.” African Historical Review. 45(2):1-30. 2013 “Max Gluckman” in McGee R.J & R.Warms, eds. Theory in Social and

Cultural Anthropology. Thousand Hills: Sage. Pp 336-340. 2013 “Hilda Kuper” in McGee R.J & R.Warms, eds. Theory in Social and Cultural

Anthropology. Thousand Hills: Sage. Pp 446-447. 2013 Not Studying White, nor Up nor Down but Around Southern Africa: A

Response to Francis Nyamnjoh.” Afrika Spectrum 48(2):117-121. 2013 “Expeditions, their films and histories—An Introduction” with A. Brown &

J.Bell in Bell,J, A.Brown and R.Gordon eds. Re-Creating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology and Popular Culture. Washington DC: Smithsonian. Pp.1-30.

2013 “Africa Calls (but to whom?): Anthropology in a minor key” in Bell,J,

A.Brown and R.Gordon eds. Re-Creating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology and Popular Culture. Washington DC: Smithsonian. Pp. 181-196.

2011 “John & Jean Comaroff”(pp.40-45); Meyer Fortes (pp.66-72); Jack Goody

(83-88); Melville Herskovits (pp.99-104); Oscar Lewis (pp.132-137; A.R.Radcliffe-Brown (pp.183-188) in Gordon, R.J., A & H.Lyons, eds. Fifty Key Anthropologists. London: Routledge.

2009 “’Hiding in Full view’: The Forgotten Bushman Genocides in Namibia.”

Genocide Studies & Prevention 4:29-58.

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2009 “Dirty Words” in The Proverbial Pied Piper: Festschrift for Wolfgang Mieder. K.McKenna ed. New York:Peter Lang. Pp.63-74.

2008 “Foreword” for Ute Diekmann The Etosha Hei//om. Basel: Basel Afrika

Bibliografien. 2008 “Widow ‘dispossession’ in northern Namibian inheritance.”

Anthropology Southern Africa 31(1&2):1-12.

2008 “Namibia: Society and Culture” in New Encyclopedia of Africa, J.Middleton and J.Miller eds.. Detroit: Charles Scribners Sons.

2008 “Imposing Vagrancy Legislation in Contemporary Papua New Guinea” in

Cast Away: Vagrancy in World Perspective. Paul Ocobock and Lee Baier eds, Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp.328-350.

2008 “Denver African Expedition” in Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics,

and History. Richard M.Juang & Noelle Morrisette eds. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio. Pp.358-9.

2007 “’Tracks that cannot be covered’: PJ.Schoeman and Public Intellectuals in

Southern Africa.” Historia 52:98-126.

2006 “Oh Shucks here comes UNTAG: Peace-keeping as Adventure” in Tarzan was an Eco-Tourist: Essays on the Anthropology of Adventure. Robert Gordon & Luis Vivanco,eds. New York: Berghahn Press. Pp.217-234. Reprinted in Beyond the Border War. G.Baines & P.Vale, eds.. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press.

2006 “Opponent’s report on Marta Salokoski’s Ph.D dissertation.” Suomen

Antropologi 31(1):54-57. 2006 “Pith Helmit Corner.” History of Anthropology Newsletter 33:(1) 5-11.

2005 “The Making of Modern Namibia: A case of anthropological ineptitude” Kleio 37:26-49

2005 “’South Africa: Civilization on Trial’. On the rise of expose documentary. ”

History in Africa 32:457-466. 2005 “Introduction: On the Perniciousness of Inheritance Problems” in The

Meaning of Inheritance. Windhoek: Legal Assistance Center. Pp.1-22.

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2005 “Youth on the March” (with Dennis Mahoney) in Germany’s Colonial Pasts edited by Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz and Lora Wildenthal, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Pp. 189-202.

2005 “The Battle for the Bioscope in Namibia.” African Identities 3(1):37-50. 2004 “Popular Justice” in Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, D.Nugent

and J.Vincent eds.. Malden: Blackwells. Pp.349-366 (Choice Academic Book of the Year 2005)

2004 “Anthropology in the World Court; the 1966 South-West Africa Case”.

History of Anthropology Newsletter 31(1):3-11. 2004 “Namibia (South West Africa): League of Nations, United Nations

Mandate” Encyclopedia of African History. K.Shillington ed.. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. Pp.1067-68.

2004 “The Quest for the Authentic: the Heroics of African Visual Anthropology” Anthropos.99: 427-434. 2004 Introduction: Essays on ‘A Kalahari Family’.” Visual Anthropology Review 19(1&2)102-113.

2004 “Isaac Schapera” in Biographical Dictionary of Anthropology. Vered Amit ed. New York: Routledge. Pp. 287-288. 2004 “Hilda Kuper” in Biographical Dictionary of Anthropology Vered Amit ed.

New York: Routledge. Pp. 446-447. 2003 “Inside the Windhoek Lager: Liquor and Lust in Namibia” in Drugs, Labor,

and Colonial Expansion. W. Jankowick & D.Bradburd, eds. Tucson: Arizona University Press. Pp. 117-134.

2003 “Fido: Dog Tales of Colonialism in Namibia” in African Environments:

Past and Present W.Beinart & J.McGregor eds.. Oxford: J.Currey & Cape Town:

D.Philip. Pp.240-254. Reprinted in Canis Africanis: A dog history of Southern Africa. L. van Sittert & S. Swart. Leiden: E.J.Brill, Leiden.

2003 “Collecting the Gatherers” in Worldly Provincials: Essays in the History of

German Anthropology. H.G.Penny & M.Bunzl, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 256-282.

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2002 “Prostitution in Namibia in Colonial Times” in “Whose Body is It?” Commercials Sex Work and the Law in Namibia. D.Hubbard, ed. Windhoek: Legal Assistance Center. Pp.47-60.

2002 “Persistent Popular Images of Pastoralists” (with C.Kratz) Visual

Anthropology 15(3&4):247-266 2002 “’Captured on Film’: Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative

Primitives” in Images and Empire. P. Landau & D.Kaspin eds.. Berkeley:University of California Press. Pp.212-232.

2002 “Unsettled Settlers: Vagrancy and Pacification in the Mandate of

Southwest Africa” in Ethnography in Unstable Places. C. Greenhouse, K., Warren and E. Mertz, eds.. Durham: Duke University Press. (Version of 1998 Vagrancy Law paper in Hayes et al).

2000 “Introduction” to These Things from the Bush by James Suzman. Basel:

P.Schlettwein Publishing. Pp..i-xxi

2000 “The Stat(u)s of Namibian anthropology: a review.” Cimbebasia16:1-23.

1999 “The Authentic (In)Authentic: Bushman Anthro-Tourism” ( with Elizabeth Garland). Visual Anthropology 12(2& 3):267-288. (Reprinted in Encounters in the Kalahari. K.Tomaselli ed, New York: Taylor & Francis (2003) and in Tourists and Tourism 2nd Edition, S.Gmelch, ed. Chicago: Waveland (2009) .

1999 “Scene(s) at the Exhibition: Bain’s “Bushmen” at the Empire

Exhibition,1936” in Africans in Show Business. B. Lindfors, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp 266-289.

1998 “Backdrops and Bushmen” in The Colonizing Camera. P. Hayes, et al. eds., Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press & Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp 111-117.

1998 “The Rise of the Bushman Penis: Germans, Genitalia and Genocide.”

African Studies 57(1):27-54.

1998 “Vagrancy, Law and ‘Shadow Knowledge’. Internal Pacification 1915-1939” in Namibia Under South African Rule: Mobility and Containment, P. Hayes, J.Silvester, M. Wallace, W. Hartmann, eds.. Oxford: J.Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Windhoek: Out of Africa. Pp.51-77.

1998 “Namibia, Peoples and Cultures,” Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. J. Middleton, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster. Vol. 3:268

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1996 “Fashioning van Riebeeck’s Bushmen” (with C. Rassool and L. Witz) in

Miscast. P. Skotnes, ed.. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp. 257-270

1995 “Saving the Last South African Bushmen.” Critical Arts 9(2):28-48.

1995 “Beyond Omega: Demilitarization and Bushmen.” MIT Working Papers.

1995 “Academic Advocates.” Southern African Review of Books : March/April.Pp.3-5.

1993 “Penetrating the Frontiers of the Mind?” Southern African Review of Books : January/February. Pp. 16-17.

1993 “Behind the Headlines.” Cultural Survival Quarterly 17(2):19-21.

1993 “Southern Africa Revisited” (with A. D. Spiegel). Annual Review of

Anthropology 22:83-105.

1993 “The Impact of the Second World War on Namibia.” Journal of Southern African Studies 19(1): 135-146.

1992 “The Venal Hottentot Venus and the Great Claim to Being: Race and

Gender in Perceiving the Other.” African Studies 51(2):185-202.

1992 “The Making of the ‘Bushmen’.” Anthropologica 34(2):183-202.

1991 “Serving the Volk With Volkekunde: The Rise of South African Anthropology” in Knowledge and Power in South Africa: Critical Perspectives Across the Disciplines. J. Jansen, ed.. Johannesburg: Skotaville. Pp. 79-97. (Expanded version of 1988).

1991 “Vernacular Law and the Future of Human Rights in Namibia.” Acta

Juridica, Pp. 86-103. (Reprinted as an Occasional Paper by Namibian Institute of Social Research).

1991 “Marginalia on ‘Grensliteratuur’: Or How/Why is Terror Culturally

Constructed in Northern Namibia?” Critical Arts 5(3):79-95.

1991 “Customary Law in Namibia: What Should be Done?” (with Lynn Berat). Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 24(4):633-651.

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1991 “Buschmannschwarmerei in Südafrika” in Jaeger und Gejagte: John Marshall und Seine Filme. R. Kapfer, W. Petermann and R. Thomas, eds., Munich: Tricksterverlag. Pp. 165-179.

1990 “The Prospects for Anthropological Tourism in Bushmanland.” Cultural

Survival Quarterly 14(1):6-8. (Reprinted as “Anthro-tourism: A New Market in Development” in Development [1992] 4:42-45); Contours 5(3) 1991:25- 27; CPPD - For a Change 5 1991); Perspectives: Anthropology. H.Deutsch ed. New York: Houghton, Miflin 1999.

1990 “Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in

History”(comment). Current Anthropology 31(2):126-127. (Reprinted in Inquiry and Debate in the Human Sciences. .S.Silverman ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press [1991]).

1990 “Kicking Up a Kalahari Storm.” Southern African Review of Books 3 (3 & 4):18-19.

1990 “People of the Great Sandface: People of the Great White Lie?” CVA

Review, 30-34. (Spring 1990). (Abridged version appeared in Cultural Survival Quarterly 15(1):49-51 (1991).

1990 “The Field Researcher as a Deviant: A Namibian Study” in Truth Be in the

Field: Social Science Research in Southern Africa. P.Hugo ed.. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press. Pp. 70-85.

1990 “Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at

Revision” (comment). Current Anthropology 31(5):508-509.

1990 “Early Social Anthropology in South Africa.” African Studies 49(1):15- 48.

1989 “Can the Namibian San Stop the Dispossession of Their Land?” in We Are Here: Land Tenure and Indigenous People. E. Wilmsen, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 138-154. (Paperback edition 1990).

1989 “The Praetorianization of Namibia.” Transafrica Forum (6)2:15-26. 1989 “The White Man’s Burden: Ersatz Customary Law and Internal

Pacification in South Africa.” Journal of Historical Sociology (2)1:41- 65. (Reprinted in South African Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Nic Olivier. P.Hugo ed.. Cape Town: Die Suid-Afrikaan, 1990. Also in Folk Law;: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta. A. Rentelm & A. Dundes, eds.. New York: Garland Press, 1994. (Reprinted 1995 in paper-back by University of Wisconsin Press).

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1989 “On the Myth of the ‘Savage Other’” (comment). Current Anthropology 30(2) (April 1989).

1988 “Apartheid’s Anthropologists: On the Genealogy of Afrikaner

Anthropology.” American Ethnologist 15(3):535-553.

1988 “Namibia’s Trials of Terror.” Southern African Review of Books 2(1):22- 23.

1988 “’Ethnological Knowledge is of Vital Importance’: The Martialization of

South African Anthropology.” Dialectical Anthropology 12:443-448.

1988 “Namibia Skelmbosched?” Southern Africa Review of Books 1(4):11-12 (Reprinted in Windhoek Observer. Pp. 30-31, Saturday, August 13).

1987 “The Forgotten Refugees: West Papuans in Papua New Guinea” (with C.

Deihl). Southeast Asian Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities: Prospects for the Eighties and Beyond. Cultural Survival Report No. 22. Pp. 155-164.

1987 “End Note: A Namibian Perspective on Lorna Marshall’s Ethnography” in Biesele & Gordon, op cit, Pp. 359-374.

1987 “Once Again How Many Bushmen Are There?” in Biesele with Gordon, op cit, Pp. 53-68.

1987 “Remembering Agnes Winifred Hoernle.” Social Dynamics 13(1):68-72

1987 “Namibia—Africa’s Longest (and forgotten) War.” Cultural Survival

Quarterly 11(4):56-57. 1987 “Anthropology and Apartheid - The Rise of Military Ethnology in South Africa.” Cultural Survival Quarterly 11(4):58-60. (Reprinted in Southern

African Report 4(3):22-25 December 1988, as “Anthropology in the Service of Apartheid”).

1985 “The !Kung in the Kalahari Exchange.” in Past and Present in Hunter

Gatherer Studies. Carmel Schrire, ed.. New York: Academic. Pp. 195-224.

1985 “Bushman Banditry in 20th Century Namibia” in Banditry, Rebellion, and Social Protest in Africa. D.Crummey, ed. London: J. Currey and Portsmouth:New Hampshire: Heinemann. Pp. 169-185.

1985 “Conserving the Bushmen to Extinction: The Metaphysics of Bushman

Hating and Empire Building.” Survival International Review 44:22-42 (London). (Published in translation “Gehegt bis zur Ausrottung:

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Buschleute im Südlichen Afrika” Peripherie 20:18-25 [1985]). (Reprinted in E. Wiedenroth, et al, eds., Afrika; Mythos, Rassismus, Soldaritaet. Mainz:Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internationale Politik 48-56 [1986]. Also as “Doint de vue: faut-il approuver les projets de’ conservatoires cultuerels?” Le cas des vue: faut-il approuver les projets de’ conservatoires cultuerels?” Le cas des Bushmen de namibie et de l’Afrique du Sud.” Ethnies 6-7 [1987] 47-53).

1985 “Bushman Policy and Primitive Accumulation in Southwest Africa” in Schrire and Gordon, eds., op cit. Pp. 25-36.

1984 “The Future of the ju-/wasi of Nyae Nyae.” Cambridge: Cultural Survival

Occasional Paper, No 1. 55 pp.

1983 “The Decline of the Kiapdom and Resurgence of ‘Tribal Fighting’ in Enga” Oceania 33(3):205-223.

1983 “The !Kung San: A Labor History.” Cultural Survival Quarterly 7(4):14-17. 1982 “South Africa’s Pact With the Bushmen.” Anthropology Resource Center Newsletter 6(1):6.

1982 “Papua New Guinea, Nation in the Making.” National Geographic

162(2):143-149 (August).

1982 “Intensive Ethnographic and Sociological Studies in Papua New Guinea” (with W. Heaney, et al). Papua New Guinea: A Nation in Transition, D. King and S. Ranck, eds.. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press. Pp. 106-109.

1982 “Law and Order” (with A. Kipalon),in Enga: Foundations for Development B. Carrad, D. Lea and K. Talyaga, eds.. Port Moresby & University of New England: Armidale, National Planning Office. Pp310 336. 1981 “The Myth of the Noble Anthropologist in Melanesia” Australian

Anthropological Society Newsletter 10. Pp. 4-19. (Reprinted in Bikmaus 2(1):10-2.)

1981 “Some Notes Toward Understanding the Dynamics of Blood Money” in

Homicide Compensation in Papua New Guinea, R.Scaglion, ed.. Port Moresby: Law Reform Commission Monograph No. 1. Pp. 88-102.

1981 “Introduction” (with Richard Scaglion) in Scaglion, ed. op cit. Pp. 1-4.

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1980 “Intensive Ethnographic and Sociological Studies in Papua New Guinea” (with K.Waiko). Oral History 8(7): 75-90.

1980 “More on Papua New Guinea Anthropology.” Current Anthropology 21(4):

528- 529.

1979 “The Decline of the ‘Kiapery’ and the Rise of the Administrative Petty Bourgeoisie” in Decentralization in Papua New Guinea, R. Premdas, ed.. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press. Pp. 107-114.

1978 “Some Organizational Aspects of Labor Protest Amongst Migrant

Contract Workers.” South African Labor Bulletin 4(1&2): 116-123.

1978 “The Celebration of Ethnicity: A ‘Tribal Fight’ in a Namibian Mining Compound” Ethnicity in Modern Africa. B. M. du Toit, ed..Boulder: Westview. Pp. 213-234.

1978 “Variations in Migration Rates: The Ovambo Case.” Journal of Southern

African Affairs 3:261-294.

1978 “Violence and the Role of Outsiders.” Catalyst 8:3,:166-174.

1977 “Rites of Worker Solidarity in a Colonial Mine Compound...” in Gordon & Williams, eds., op cit..Pp. 51-70.

1977 “On Misunderstanding Highland Violence” Melanesian Law Journal

5(2):309-316.

1975 “A Note on the History of Labour Action in Namibia.” South African Labour Bulletin 1(10):7-17.

1971 “Toward an Ethnography of Bergdama Gossip” Namib und Meer 2: 45-57.

1969 “A Plea for Bantu Law?” Responsa Meridiana, Pp. 31-37.

C. Reviews/Extended Reviews/ Review Essays: 2015 Cleveland “Stones of Contention” International Journal of African

Historical Studies 48(3):531-32. 2014 “The Demise and Rise of the coy San” Africa Spectrum 49(2):105-11.

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2014 Bank & Bank “Inside African Anthropology.” Anthropology Southern Africa 37(1-2):135-138.

2013 Sarkin “Germany’s Genocide of the Herero” African Historical Review 45(1):80-82. 2009 Stoecker, “Afrikanistik……” African Studies Review 53(3):170-71. 2008 Skotnes, “Claim to the Country….” De Arte 77:74-77(review essay). 2008 Aitken, “Exclusion and Inclusion.’ International Journal of African

Historical Studies 41:141-2. 2008 “God’s own Country?” International Journal of African Historical Studies

39:128-133. 2006 Willet, et al “Khoe and San Bibliography” African Studies Review 2004 Silvester & Gewald “Words Cannot Describe.” International Journal of

African Historical Studies 37(1):125-127.

2003 Mohlig & Fleisch “Kavango Local History.” South African Historical Journal. 49:262-264.

2004 Hohmann ed., “San and the State.” African Studies Review 47(1):217-218. 2002 Jones, “Storyteller.” African Affairs 101:220-221. 2002 Schumaker, “Africanizing anthropology.” Journal for Southern African Studies 28:471- 473. 2002 Walker “Regopstaan’s Dream” in H-Net Video Reviews. 4700 words. 2001 Gewald, “’We thought we would be Free’.” International Journal of African History 36:6-9.

2000 Emmett “Resistance.....” International Journal of African History 33(2):425-426.

2000 Wilmsen, "The Kalahari Journals of Passage" Journal of African History

41:145-6.

2000 “The Life and of Sara Baartman” American Anthropologist 102:7-8.

1998 Kent, "Diversity Among 20th Century Foragers." African Studies Review 41:161-163.

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1998 Leutwein “Elf Jahre Gouverneur” African Studies Review 41:171-173.

1998 (with Glen Elder) "In Darkest Hollywood." American Anthropologist 100: 1018-1021(extended review).

1998 (with Glen Elder) “America’s Dark Images of Africa" Visual Anthropology

12:357-359. (extended review) Reprinted in Encounters in the Kalahari. K.Tomaselli, ed . New York: Taylor & Francis (2003).

1997 Hiery, “The Neglected War.” South African Historical Journal 36:356-7. 1997 Dedering, “Hating the Old and Loving the New” South African Historical Journal 36:334-36.

1996 Schrire, “Digging Through Darkness.” African Studies 55(1):151-152.

1994 Ferguson and Whitehead, eds., “War in the Tribal Zone” American Ethnologist 21:904-905.

1993 Moss and Obery, eds., “South African Review 5” Journal of Contem- porary African Studies 11(2):147-150 (with H. Phororo and Z. T. Petlane).

1993 Mann and Roberts, eds., “Law in Colonial Africa.” African Studies Review 36(1):135-37.

1992 R. Edgar, ed., “An Afro-American in South Africa.” African Studies 51(2):298-299.

1989 Baker, W. J. and J. A. Mangan, eds., “Sport in Africa: Essays in Social

History.” American Ethnologist 16(1):172-173.

1986 Gugelberger, “Nama/Namibia: The Diary of Hendrik Witbooi.” Canadian Journal of African Studies

1985 V. Crapanzano, “Waiting—The Whites of South Africa.” Panel Discussion

with E. Boonzaaier, P. Skalnik, R. Thornton and M. West Social Dynamics 11(2):65-71. (Reprinted in Truth Be in the Field. P.Hugo ed. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press)

1983 V. February, “Mind Your Colour.” American Ethnologist 10(2):385-386.

1982 D. Maybury-Lewis, ed., “The Prospects for Plural Societies.” American

Ethnologist 12(2):394-395.

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1982 H. and M. Levine, “Urbanization in Papua New Guinea” and A. Stretten,

“Urban Housing Policy in Papua New Guinea.” American Anthropologist 84(3):707-708.

1981 “N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman” American Anthropologist 83(3): 740-

741. 1980 Hamnett, ed., “Social Anthropology and Law” Mankind 12(3):255. 1972 M. Tuupainen, “Marriage in a Matrilineal African Tribe.” African Studies

32(2):129-131.

D. Professional Presentations (since 1990):

2019 ‘The Voodoo Ethnologists of Omega’ University of the Witwatersrand. (May).

2019 ‘The Grand Delusion of Apartheid in Namibia’ NEWSA Workshop, Burlington, Vt. (April) 2016 ‘J.P. Bruwer and the making of Grand Apartheid’ ASNA Conference,

University of Venda. (October). 2015 ‘Moritz Bonn and Colonial Bureaucracies: Fueling Liberalism?’

International Conference on Moritz Bonn, Hamburg Institute of Social Research, (November)

2015 “Damn Geneva: The Administrator responds to the Permanent Mandates

Commission” International Conference on League of Nations Experts, Paris (March)

2015 “Habits of the Hunters” International Workshop on Hunting in

Contemporary Africa, Cologne (March) (with Janie Swanepoel) 2014 “ Mary and Max in the Mongu Masquerade. AAA Washington, DC (December) 2014 “The War for the ‘Other’ : The Battle for South African Anthropology in

the Inter-war years. University of the Western Cape (May) 2014 “Max in Zululand” University of Hamburg (March) 2013 “How ‘Grand Apartheid’ failed in Namibia and its Implications for the

Liberation of South Africa. University of Cologne. (December).

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2013 Workshop on Anthropology and (post)Colonialism. University of Cologne

(December) 2013 “Max and Mary in the Mongu Masquerade: Gluckman’s fieldwork in

Barotseland” Humanities Center Seminar, University of the Western Cape (October)

2013 “Going for the Reds: Max Gluckman and the Anthropology of Football”

(with M.Grundlingh). Kick It! The Anthropology of European Football. Vienna, Austria. (October)

2013 “The Adventures of Max in Zululand.” Anthropology Southern Africa

Conference, Johannesburg (September). 2013 “Moritz Bonn, Southern Africa and decolonization” History Seminar,

University of Stellenbosch (March). 2013 “Specious Speculations on Adventure Capitalism”. ‘Pale Jews: New

directions in Southern African Historiography’. University of Cape Town (March).

2013 ”How the Guinea-Pig burnt his Bridge: Gluckman in Zululand” NEWSA

Workshop, Burlington (April) . 2013 ”How the Guinea-Pig burnt his Bridge: Gluckman in Zululand” Invited

Plenary Session, Israeli Anthropological Association, Jerusalem (May)

2012 “The very model of a Liberal: Max Gluckman at Wits”. Anthropology Southern Africa Meetings. Cape Town (September)

2011 “Moritz Bonn and the historiography of southern African colonialism”

UNISA (June)

2010 “How Namibia Shapes the way we think: Moritz Bonn’s visit in 1907”. NEWSA Burlington (April)

2009 “Moritz Bonn and the Critique of Colonialism”. National Archives of Namibia. (June) 2009 “The South African Empire: Rethinking Plunder in Namibia” (Panel Discussion) Basel (May) 2009 “Leporello: the history of military engagement with anthropology”. Hamburg University (April)

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2009 “Moritz Bonn and the Critique of colonialism” Cologne University (January)

2006 “Africa sneaks: Expeditionary anthropology in the inter-war years” American Anthropological Association. Washington DC (November).

2006 Asset Stripping in Inheritance matters. Helsinki. (March). 2005 Meanings of Inheritance. American Anthropological Association, Washington DC (December) 2005 Discussant “Love and Kinship in Kwa-Zulu”. American Anthropological Association. Washington DC. (December) 2005 Imposing Vagrancy Legislation in Papua New Guinea. Princeton (November) 2004 Dogs and Colonialism. Walter Rodney Seminar, Boston University (March) and Syracuse (April). 2004 Galton’s Ghouls. North Eastern Anthropological Association, Dartmouth. (March) 2004 Organizer and Chair, panel on “Kalahari Family” at American Anthropological Association Chicago, (November)

2003 “Oh Shucks Here comes Untag: Peace-keeping as Adventure” Special conference on Tarzan held in the Field Museum on Natural History, Chicago.

2002 Chair for “Tarzan was an Adventure-Tourist” Session at the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans (November) 2002 “The Battle for the Bioscope in Namibia” African Studies Association, Washington, DC (December) 2002 “Dirty Words: the politics of labelling populations” African Human Genome Initiative Workshop. Stellenbosch, South Africa (September). 2002 “Dogs and Colonialism” Princeton. (April) 2001 “What Instrument is this?” Paper for a plenary session of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC 2001 “Colonial Amateur Science” St. Antony’s College, Oxford (May)

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2000 “Hunting the Collectors: The Origins of Science in Namibia”. Public History: Forgotten History Conference, Windhoek (August) 2000 “The uses of ineptitude: South African anthropology in Namibia” Association of Anthropology in Southern Africa. Windhoek (May) 2000 “Anthropology on High: The SWA case at the World Court” Oxford (March) GRANTS AWARDED: Major External: 2014-19 National Research Foundation Rated Scholar. 2009 Senior Fulbright Fellow to Germany (Spring Semester) research on the history of African Studies and anthropology. University of Cologne.

2000-01 Senior Fulbright Fellow to Namibia to teach about and do research on “Domestic Violence”.

1994-96 “East African Public Defender Training Grant,” United States Information Service (With Lauren Kolitch)

1995-96 “The Denver African Expedition,” Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

1994 “Trees Never Meet,” Namibian Historiography 1915-1945, National

Endowment of Humanities collaborative grant (P.Hayes, Principal Investigator)

1992 Popular Constructions of Tuberculosis and its Socio-Economic Implications, principal investigator, International Development Research Council (Canada)

1992 Land Rights and Soil Erosion in Lesotho, principal investigator, International Development Research Council (Canada)

1992 AIDS and Football in Lesotho, Canada Fund

1990 Social Science Research Council grant to set up a rural income study in Namibia (with M.Boyd)

1985 Social Science Research Council grant to study rural banditry in southern Africa.

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1983 Maryknoll Walsh-Price Fellowship for six months to study Bushman underclass formation.

Fellowships/Funded Visiting Appointments:

2005 “Customary Law of Inheritance” Legal Assistance Center, Namibia. January-August.

2002 National Endowment of the Humanities summer seminar fellowship to

attend “Punishment: Politics, Power and Culture” at Amherst, directed by A. Sarat.


attend “The Cultural Politics of Identity” at the East-West Center, Hawaii, directed by G. White and L. Lindstrom.

1989 University Fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University.


attend “History of Science” seminar at Harvard University, directed by E. Mendelsohn.

1986 University Fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes

University, South Africa.

1984 National Endowment of the Humanities summer seminar fellowship to attend “Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Law” at Dartmouth College, directed by L. Rosen (Princeton).

1983 National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend.

1980 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, Papua New Guinea.

University of Vermont Grants: 2010 Lattie Coor Grant to do preliminary research for a biography of Max Gluckman.

2007 Stipend to develop a Problem-based Learning Community on “Identity and Reconstruction in the southern Sudan”.

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2004 International Education grant to purchase materials for a course on “Going Abroad”

2002 University of Vermont grant to do preliminary research for a film on the

German community in Namibia 1998 University of Vermont grant for research on domestic violence in

Namibia

1993-94 University of Vermont grant for research on the Denver African Expedition

1987 University of Vermont summer research fellowship

1984 University of Vermont institutional grant to prepare Namibian materials

for publication.

1984 International development project curriculum development grant (with W.E.Mitchell)

1982 International conferences on Namibia at the University of Vermont; funded by International Nutrition Program, Cross-cultural Committee, Area and International Studies.


1982 University of Vermont instructional development center grant


COURSES TAUGHT:

Stellenbosch Peoples and Cultures of the World University: Material Culture

University of Illinois: An Introduction to Social Anthropology and Ethnology

University of Introduction to the Study of Society Papua New Guinea: Social Studies Foundation Year

Current Issues in the Social Sciences Law and Society Melanesian Societies Economic Anthropology

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Varieties of Social Theory

University of Human Cultures Vermont: Cultures of Africa

Urban Anthropology Culture Change Third World Development: Patterns, Problems and Policies The Uses of Anthropology Law, War and Disorder Applied Anthropology Anthropology of Third World Development Visions of Africa Colonialism Senior Seminar Social Organization Legal Anthropology

Genocide: An anthropological perspective The Anthropology of Human Rights Going Abroad: an anthropological primer for getting lost Identity and Reconstruction in southern Sudan: a problem based learning Community The Political Economy of Anthropology Hunters Pillage, Plunder Piracy and Poaching in Africa History of Anthropological Theory University of the Socio-cultural Transformation Free State Environmental Anthropology Ethnographic Research University of Cologne Colonialism and Anthropology The Political Economy of African Anthropology SERVICE:

A. Professional: 2014- Director, Northeastern Workshop on Southern Africa Inc (NEWSA) 2014- Editorial Board, Anthropology Southern Africa. 2012 Canadian Social Science and History Council, Anthropology Panel. 2010 National Endowment of the Humanities Evaluation Panel for Africa. 2010 -2012 Fulbright country program evaluation panel for Anthropology.

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2010-2012 Fulbright Specialist peer evaluation panel for Anthropology and Archeology. 2010--2015 Internal Governance Committee, Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security. University of Vermont.

2009--17 Editorial board, Kronos.

2007-10 Executive, Association for Africanist Anthropology (American Anthropological Association). 2007 Briefing on Namibia to US Ambassador designate.

2004 Workshop on Grant Writing and Fund raising. University of the Free State and National Khoisan Consultative Council (Jan) 2004- 2009 Editorial Board, Kleio. 2004- 2010 Editorial Board, Cultural Survival Quarterly (Declined Chairmanship). 2003– 2015 Corresponding Editor, History of Anthropology Newsletter. 2003—2009 Board of Governors, Wa Naa Mormori Bondiri II Educational Fund, Inc. 2003 -- 2010 Executive Committee, North Eastern Anthropological Association 2003—present Country Committee for Archives Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Liberation Struggle Project (AACRLS) funded by the Governments of Namibia and Germany 2003 Co-organizer of the North Eastern Anthropological Association annual

meetings in Burlington, Vt. 2002—2008 Consulting Editor, Anthropology Southern Africa..

2002 Panelist, Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Forum on African Policy.

2001 Pre-departure adviser to Fulbright Scholars going to Africa.

1992 Organized and led a workshop on Proposal Writing and Editing Academics, Roma, Lesotho.

1991-93 Editorial Board, NUL Journal.

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1978-1979 Joint editor, Yagl-Ambu, Journal for Melanesian Social Science &Humanities.

1978-79 Board of Governors, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies.

1977-79 Coordinator, University of Papua New Guinea Lahara field work projects.

1976 Editorial Board, Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society.

1974 Convenor, Illinois Africanist Association inaugural meeting.

1974 Executive Council, Bureau for Language and Literacy, Windhoek Namibia.

1972-74 Assistant editor, “Illi-Afrika” newsletter of University of Illinois Africa Studies Center.

Refereed articles for Current Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Human Organization, Social Science and Medicine, Pacific Studies, Ethnohistory, American Anthropologist, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Anthropologica, Man, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Gender and History, African Studies, Journal of Contemporary African Affairs, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, African Affairs, Journal of Southern African Studies, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Genocide Research, Journal of African History, African Studies Review. Journal of Genocide Studies, Anthropological Quarterly. Refereed book-length manuscripts for University of Chicago Press (eight times), University of Minnesota, Columbia University Press, G. P. Putnam, Westview Press (three times), Cambridge University Press (two times), Yale University Press, University of Michigan Press (three times), Ohio University Press (three times), Oxford University Press (two times), Heinemann (two times), University of California Press, Berg. Berghahn, Ashgate, Sean Kingston

Referred research proposals for CUNY Graduate Center, Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright-Hays Scholarship Program, SSHRC (Canada), Wilson Center, National Research Foundation (South Africa), Fulbright Senior Scholars Program External evaluation of the Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Social Work, University of Papua New Guinea (1985). External Reviewer of Anthropology Department, St.Cloud State, Minnesota (2010) Outside evaluation of the Anthropology Department, University of Waterloo, Canada (2005).

Thesis examiner : Habilitation G.Dobler, Basel 2010

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Doctorates M.Taylor, Brandeis 1998

T.Quinlan, Cape Town 1993 P.Peltola, Helsinki, 1995 R.Sylvain, Toronto 1999

D.Lebeau, Rhodes, 2000 B.Frayne, Queens, 2001 G.McRae, Union, 2001

G.Teran, UVM Education Faculty 2002 C.Low, Oxford, 2004

G.Klinghardt, Cape Town. 2005 M.Salokowski, Helsinki, 2005 and 2006 L van Vuuren, Cape Town, 2006 O.Sibanda, Fort Hare, 2012 M. leRoux, UNISA 2019

Masters: A.Anslie, Rhodes 1998

I.Niehaus, Cape Town 1989 S.de la Porte, Natal 2000. M.Ruiters, Rhodes 1992 A.Simoes, Natal, 2001

A.Ahmad, Western Cape 2004 L. Hildyard, Rhodes 2007 N.Lazenby, CapeTown 2012. B. University and College Committees: 2009-2011 Member, UVM Student Fulbright committee 2008 Member, Search Committee for Economics Department Chair 2002- 2006 Director of African Studies Program. Executive Council member, International Studies

2002 Member, Search Committee for Psychology Chair

2001-2005 Member, Military Studies Board, University of Vermont 1998-01 Interim Chair, Anthropology Department.

1997-98 Member, Selection Panel, Police Services, University of Vermont

1997 Member, Religion Department, Chair Review Committee

1996- Member, Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs

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1990 Member, Search Committee of Anthropology Chair

1989 Chair, Search Committee for Political Science Chair

1988-91 Member, Admissions Committee, Arts and Sciences

1987-89 Member, Senate Committee on Research and Scholarship


1987 Advisor, Anthropology Club

1984-89 Member, Executive Committee, International Studies 1984-89 Chair, African Studies Committee

1984-87 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Nominations Committee

1982-83 Member, Women and Development Committee


1981-84 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Honors Committee

1980-84 Advisor, Anthropology Club

1982- Founder Member, African Studies Program 1979- Member, Asian Studies Program

1979-82 Member, ad hoc Cross-cultural Committee

In addition, I have chaired several MA thesis committees in English, Geology, Psychology and History at UVM.

C. Consultancies: 2011 “The Forgotten Bushman Genocides” Jens Hahne Director. Segment for German Television. 1995-2002 Chief historical advisor to John Marshall’s PBS-funded prize-winning five part film series “A Kalahari Family”

1992 Evaluation of field project for Danish Volunteer Service, Lesotho

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1989 United Nations Development Program Mission to Namibia to investigate second and third tier authorities (one month)

1987 Advisor, Survival International on the Bushmen of the Kalahari Gemsbok

Park project

1984-85 Film by Cine-Contact, Montreal, on “Militarization and Women in the Third World”

1982 !Kung San Foundation

1982 National Geographic Society

1979-80 Enga Integrated Rural Development project

1979-80 Papua New Guinea Village Courts Secretariat

1979-80 Papua New Guinea Law Reform Commission on Customary Law D. Other Ethnographic photographs have appeared in W.A.Haviland, Cultural Anthropology (various editions) and in A. McEvoy and P.Townsend Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective (4th Edition) 2003 Research cited inter alia in Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, BBC, as well as local newspapers. Book Going Abroad discussed on National Public Radio and featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education 2011 Extensive interview on BBC 4 for a program on “Professional Strangers” by Nigel Barley 2001 Consultant to TV production “Der Buschmann in Uns” in Quarks & Co series screened on WDR (Germany) 2011. Featured in a video documentary “Remembering John Marshall” 2006. 12 minutes by David Hames and Alice Apsley. Screened at various Film Festivals. (Distributed by DER) Featured interview in “Interwar Travelogues: Harry Wright’s Mexican films”. Screened on BBC Channel 4 2009 Blurbs carried on books by a number of prominent anthropologists including A.E.Robertson , John and Jean Comaroff, Andrew Bank, Marion Wallace, Helge Staby Deaton, Giorgio Miescher, Wendi Haugh, Andre Goodrich, Ilisa Barbash.

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