Traces and Tracks: A Thirty-year Journey with the San
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Traces and Tracks: A Thirty Year Journey with the San documents the history and life of the San in Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. It depicts Paul Weinberg’s intimate perspective on the lives of modern-day San over the past 30 years.
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Given that in the past the San were considered ‘vermin’ and there were proclamations to shoot them on site, the public identity of anyone with San ancestry was highly precarious in the 18th and 19th centuries. During the apartheid period, when the country was strictly racialised, there was no category for San or ‘Bushmen’. San people became subsumed under the title ‘coloured’. Nowadays the San are revered for their encyclopaedic knowledge about the environment and their way of life.