Cultural studies, encounters, and academic publications are composed of layers of subjective experiences and objective data. This article is a personalized attempt to bring together some of the layers relevant to the author's experiences of the Southern Kalahari people. It examines orality, memory, and subjectivity in the search for a methodology through which to represent the “Other.”
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