Dorothea Frances Bleek (later Dorothy F. Bleek ; born 26 March 1873, Mowbray, Cape Town – died 27 June 1948, Newlands, Cape Town ) was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen (the San people) of Southern Africa .
5-409: Bleek may mean: Dorothea Bleek (1873-1948), German anthropologist and philologist Friedrich Bleek (1793-1859), German biblical scholar Karl Theodor Bleek (1898-1969), German politician Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875), German linguist Memphis Bleek or Bleek, stage name of New York rapper Malik Cox (born 1978) Bleek Gilliam, main character of
10-410: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dorothea Bleek Dorothea Bleek was the fifth daughter of Wilhelm Bleek , a pioneering philologist studying the languages and cultures of Southern Africa in the late 1800s. Much of his work was done in partnership with his sister-in-law (Dorothy Bleek's aunt, Lucy Lloyd ). The work of Dorothy Bleek
15-621: Is in the introduction to The Heart of the Hunter (1961), a follow-up to The Lost World of the Kalahari , the book based on the BBC series that brought the Bushmen to international attention. Bleek's research and findings are often overshadowed by the work of her father, and she has been criticised for lacking the empathy and intuition of him and her aunt. For example, a section in her 1928 volume on
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25-471: Was largely a continuation of her father and aunt's research, but she also made numerous notable contributions of her own to the field. Her culminating work, published after death, was the book A Bushman Dictionary , still referenced today. Laurens van der Post , who liked to think of himself as "a white Bushman", credited her book Mantis and His Hunter (along with Specimens of Bushman Folklore by her father and aunt) as "a sort of Stone Age Bible". This
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