2003
VIII, 402 pp.
18 maps, 5 b/w photos, 4 diagrams, 17 tables
Text language: English
The present volume contains nine papers resulting from recent anthropological research with San communities in southern Africa. The authors shed light on the current situation of different San groups in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. All papers deal with the relationship between the San and the state as well as the consequences for the life of local communities. Whereas the majority of contemporary research underscores external influence, this volume places its emphasis on local factors.
CONTENTS
Thekla Hohmann: San and the State – An Introduction
Ute Dieckmann: The Impact of Nature Conservation on San – A Case Study of Etosha National Park
Thomas Widlok: The Needy, the Greedy, and the State – Dividing Hai//om Land in the Oshikoto Region
Ina Orth: Identity as Dissociation – The Khwe’s Struggle for Land in West Caprivi
Gertrud Boden: ‘Caught in the Middle’ – Impacts of State Decisions and Armed Conflicts on Khwe Economy and Ethnicity in West Caprivi between 1998 and 2002
Thekla Hohmann: ‘We are Looking for Life. We are Looking for the Conservancy’ – Namibian Conservancies, Nature Conservation, and Rural Development – The Náa-Jaqna Conservancy
Michael Taylor: ‘Wilderness’, ‘Development’, and San Ethnicity in Contemporary Botswana
Michael Bollig: Between Welfare and Bureaucratic Domination – The San of Ghanzi and Kgalagadi Districts
Susanne Berzborn: ‘Ek is `n Nama, want ek praat die taal’ – The Richtersveld and the National Language Policy in South Africa
Steven Robins: NGOs, ‘Bushmen’ and Double Vision – The ákhomani San Land Claim and the Cultural Politics of ‘Community’ and ‘Development’ in the Kalahari