Barbara Buntman (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

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Barbara Buntman
Art History
The School of Arts
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
P.O. Wits, 2050
South Africa

Mail address:
7 Haven Road
Greenside
Johannesburg 2193
South Africa

phone:   27 11 646 2908       
fax:     21 11 646 2735
E-mail:  barbie@icon.co.za



In relation to African Studies I teach and research in the following
areas:  visual constructions of race and identity with particluar emphasis
on KhoiSan in popular culture and the South African Tourist industry:
Southern San rock painting and engraving, Robben island as heritage and
tourist site, Ezrom Legae.


Selected Publications

2002   "Travels to Otherness: Whose Identity do we want to see?" in Self-
and Other-images of Hunter-Gatherers, Senri-Ethnological Studies No 60,
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. (ISSN 00387-6004)

2002   "Entering a new era: Questioning the Possibilities of KhoiSan 
Visual Self-representation." in Rural and Urban Development Conference, 
2002, CD Rom, Irene: Document Transformation Technologies (ISBN: 
0-620-28871-X)

2001   With Shannen Hill: "Clothing and Identity: " Exhibition review in 
African Arts, XXXIV (Autumn), No 3, Los Angeles: University of California, 
pp. 77-78, 96.

1999   With Rory Bester: "Bushman(ia) and Photographic Intervention",
African Arts, XXXII (Winter), No 4, Los Angeles: University of California,
pp. 50-59, 93-94.

1999   "Whose identity do we see?: Tourist Industry photographs of 
Southern African Khoisan", Encounters with photography: Photographing 
People in Southern Africa, 1860-1999, Published proceedings of Conference 
held in Cape Town, 14-17 July, 1999, South African Museum. 
http://www.museums.org.za/sam/conf/enc/buntman.htm

1998   "'Primitives, paintings and Paradoxes: representations of Southern
San Imagery on South African Studio Ceramics from the 1950s.", in Gers,
Wendy, Ed., South African Studio Ceramics: A Selection from the 1950s,
Port Elizabeth: King George VI Art Gallery, pp 30-34.