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Tsodilo Hills: Copper Bracelet of the Kalahari. By Alec Campbell, Larry Robbins & Michael Taylor (eds.). Michigan State University Press, Lansing / The Botswana Society, Gaborone, 2010, xi+180 pp. ISBN 978-0-87013-858-4. US$ 39.95 (Softcover).

Tsodilo Hills: Copper Bracelet of the Kalahari. By Alec Campbell, Larry Robbins & Michael Taylor... Book Review It is a rare occurrence, at least to this reviewer, that a book is picked up and not put down until arriving at the back cover. Of course, one can attribute this to the fact that the book in question has an accessible coffeetable format, and that a striking feature is the amount of beautiful photographs reproduced on high-quality paper. But this is not to do justice to the work laid down by the editors and individual authors, a group of experienced scholars which has been extended to also include a professional writer. The awareness that one is advancing through the pages in a pace well above average is soon combined with the realization that this is an interesting attempt to create a hybrid of differing genres. While spurring the public imagination along the lines archaeologists think about the past, the format chosen also has the potential for adjusting popular understanding of the time-depth of human development and for challenging prevailing perceptions of watertight boundaries between ethnic identities in the past or the present. Will the book live up to the emerging expectation that it is a fruitful way of conveying important but complex academic debates http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Archaeology Brill

Tsodilo Hills: Copper Bracelet of the Kalahari. By Alec Campbell, Larry Robbins & Michael Taylor (eds.). Michigan State University Press, Lansing / The Botswana Society, Gaborone, 2010, xi+180 pp. ISBN 978-0-87013-858-4. US$ 39.95 (Softcover).

Fredriksen, Per Ditlef
Journal of African Archaeology , Volume 9 (1): 101 – Oct 25, 2011
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Book Review It is a rare occurrence, at least to this reviewer, that a book is picked up and not put down until arriving at the back cover. Of course, one can attribute this to the fact that the book in question has an accessible coffeetable format, and that a striking feature is the amount of beautiful photographs reproduced on high-quality paper. But this is not to do justice to the work laid down by the editors and individual authors, a group of experienced scholars which has been extended to also include a professional writer. The awareness that one is advancing through the pages in a pace well above average is soon combined with the realization that this is an interesting attempt to create a hybrid of differing genres. While spurring the public imagination along the lines archaeologists think about the past, the format chosen also has the potential for adjusting popular understanding of the time-depth of human development and for challenging prevailing perceptions of watertight boundaries between ethnic identities in the past or the present. Will the book live up to the emerging expectation that it is a fruitful way of conveying important but complex academic debates

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Published: Oct 25, 2011

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