Barbara Buntman

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	South Africa
Affiliation	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Email	barbie@icon.co.za
Mailing Address	7 Haven Road Greenside Johannesburg 2193 South Africa or Art History The School of Arts University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg P.O. Wits, 2050 South Africa
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 27 11 646 2908 fax: 21 11 646 2735
Countries of Specialization	South Africa
Research Interests	In relation to African Studies I teach and research in the following areas: visual constructions of race and identity with particular 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.
Teaching Interests	In relation to African Studies I teach and research in the following areas: visual constructions of race and identity with particular 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.
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.
Keywords	KhoiSan ; popular culture ; visual anthropology ; heritage ; identity.