State and society’s perhaps guilty recognition of the San in the coat of arms of post-apartheid South Africa was accompanied by a scholarly and creative revival of interest in the San’s poetic and material legacy. Two recent books explore that legacy. Helize van Vuuren’s A Necklace of Springbok Ears, which argues for the parity of Von Wielligh’s Boesmanstories with the work of Bleek and Lloyd, shows that writers, drawing inspiration from !Xam orality, have enriched our literature and reached towards its integrity and continuity with its historic (and perhaps pre-historic) past. In a global perspective, James Suzman’s Affluence without Abundance, an anthropologist’s account of his life with the Ju/’hoansi of Namibia, revives and revitalises the argument that twenty-first-century humanity can learn and benefit from the morality and the ecology of hunter-gatherers, suggesting that in some survivors, their critical and creative imagination continues to sustain their cultural heritage.

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“活在当下”：“丛林人”的存在、过去和未来

国家和社会在种族隔离后的南非纹章中承认桑人可能是有罪的，伴随着对桑人诗歌和物质遗产的学术和创造性兴趣的复兴。最近的两本书探讨了这一遗产。Helize van Vuuren 的 A Necklace of Springbok Ears 论证了 Von Wiellih 的 Boesmanstories 与 Bleek 和 Lloyd 的作品相同，表明作家从 !Xam 口语中汲取灵感，丰富了我们的文学，并通过其实现了其完整性和连续性历史的（也许是史前的）过去。从全球的角度来看，詹姆斯·苏兹曼的《不富足的富裕》，一位人类学家对他与纳米比亚 Ju/'hoansi 生活的描述，