Publications

1992
"Practice, politics and ideology of the "travelling business" in Aboriginal religion. Oceania 62/2:114-136.

1994
"Space and the other. Social experience and ethnography in the Kalahari Debate." In: Kirsten Hastrup and Peter Hervik (eds), Social experience and anthropological knowledge. London: Routledge.

1995
"The irrealis at work in Hai//om". In: Megan Biesele, Anthony Traill and Rainer Vossen (eds), The Complete Linguist. Memorial Volume for Patrick Dickens. Köln: Köppe.

1996
"Nharo and Hai//om Settlement Patterns in Comparative Perspective". In: Susan Kent (ed.), Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth Century Foragers: An African Perspective. Cambridge University Press. [mit A. Barnard]

1996
"Rethinking some universals of spatial language using controlled comparison". In: R. Dirven and M. Pütz (eds.), The Construal of Space in Language and Thought. Berlin: de Gruyter. [mit S. Neumann]

1996
"Ethnicity in the post-apartheid era. A "San" case study from Namibia." In: Louise de la Gorgendière et al. (eds.) Ethnicity in Africa. Roots, Meanings and Implications. African Studies Centre, Edinburgh.

1997
"Orientation in the wild: the shared cognition of Hai//om Bushpeople". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N. S.) 3, 317-332.

1997
"=Akhoe pragmatics, Hai//om identity and the Khoekhoe language." In: W. Haacke and E. Elderkin (eds.) Namibian Languages: Reports and Papers. (Namibian African Studies vol. 4) Köln: Köppe.

1997
"Traditions of transformation. Travelling rituals in Australia." In: Ad Borsboom and Toon Otto (eds), Cultural Dynamics of Religious Change in Oceania. Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Press.

1998
"Cognitive Foundations of Khoisan Common Sense." In: M. Schladt (ed.), Language, Identity, and Conceptualization among the Khoisan. Köln: Köppe.

1998
"Unearthing Culture. Khoisan Funerals and Social Change. Anthropos 93:115-126.

1998
"Digging a Grave for Culture. Cultural Heritage and Power Relations in a Namibian Khoisan Group". In: A. Bank (ed.), The Khoisan Identities and Cultural Heritage Conference. Bellville: Institute for Historical Research, University of the Western Cape. 256-262

1999
"Mapping spatial and social permeability." Current Anthropology 40/3:392-400.

1999
"A place to rest and to talk: spatial and linguistic shifts in northern Namibia." In: S. Neumann (ed.) Comparing African Spaces. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter 11:125-144

1999
"Die Kartierung der räumlichen und sozialen Durchlässigkeit von flexiblen Lokalgruppen". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 124. 281-298.

1999
"Living on Mangetti. Hai//om "Bushmen" autonomy and Namibian independence." Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2000
"Names that escape the state: Hai//om naming practices against domination and isolation". In: P. Schweitzer, M. Biesele, R. Hitchcock (eds), Hunters and gatherers in the modern context: conflict, resistance and self-determination. New York: Berghahn. 361-379.

2000
"On the other side of the internal African frontier: Relations between Herero and 'Bushmen'." In M. Bollig and J.-B. Gewald (eds), People, Cattle and Land. Köln: Köppe. 497-522.

2001
"The Illusion of a Future? Medicine Dance Rituals for the Civil Society of Tomorrow". In: T. Widlok and K. Sugawara (eds), Symbolic Categories and Ritual Practice in Hunter-Gatherer Experiences. African Studies Monographs. Kyoto: Center for African Area Studies. 165-183.

2001
"Living on Ethnography and Comparison. What Difference Do Hai//om 'Bushmen' Make to Anthropology (and Vice Versa)?" Anthropos 96:359-378.

2001
"Relational Properties: Understanding Ownership in the Namib Desert and Beyond." Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 126, 237-268.