KAGGA KAMMA GAME PARK, South Africa — The prime attractions of the park appear as if from nowhere. In other game parks, you would be talking about elephants, rhinoceroses or lions. In Kagga Kamma, you ...

D’KAR, Botswana — Komtsha Komtsha pulled his jacket around him to ward off the chill winter wind that blows unchecked across the flat plains of the Kalahari Desert on its way to this settlement of ...

In 1950, a former president of Raytheon named Laurence Marshall took his family on a trip to one of the most desolate spots on the planet. Their destination was a stretch of bush land within the ...

Life was easy, there were lots of fruits, animals and there were no bars and no beer. Now we are lost," says Goiotseone. They have been to visit a number of times since they were evicted but are not ...

Movie fans know the Ju’/Hoansi, formerly known as Bushmen, from the South African international hit “The Gods Must Be Crazy.” The 1980 comedy, hugely popular yet controversial, makes no claim to ...

The Old Way: A Story of the First People. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. $27. 343 pp. Among the self-flattering notions held by the civilized world is the one that labels ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fifty years ago, at a symposium of anthropologists in Chicago, a new consensus emerged on the mode of production of ...

Sir, I enjoyed John Ryle’s review of James Suzman’s book Affluence without Abundance (“The disappearing world of the Bushmen”, Life & Arts, November 4). However, may I make a correction to his use of ...

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