Barnard, Alan, 1949-2022

Alan Barnard began his anthropological career as a student of the Bushmen of southern Africa, with fieldwork in the Kalahari among Naro-speaking people. Building on his early work in the regional comparison of kinship and settlement, he rose to become one of the leading figures in the anthropology of hunting and gathering societies. In later years he would turn his attention to the social anthropology of human origins, with important work on the evolution of language and symbolic culture. In this memoir we review his achievements in these several fields, as a scholar, colleague and teacher.

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