San and the State

Contesting Land, Development, Identity and Representation

Edited by: Thekla Hohmann. With contributions by: Susanne Berzborn, Gertrud Boden, Michael Bollig, Ute Dieckmann, Thekla Hohmann, Ina Orth, Steven Robins, Michael Taylor, Thomas Widlok. Series edited by: Michael Bollig, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †.

Series: HSA History, Cultural Traditions and Innovations in Southern Africa Volume 18

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

Under these links you will find publications by the contributors and further descriptions of San culture(s) and languages:

Accompanying material:

• Die Khoe-Sprachen (ISBN 978-3-927620-59-9)
• Ein Leben im Dienste der Afrikanistik (ISBN 978-3-89645-631-1)
• Kalahari and Namib Bushmen in German South West Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-146-0)
• Medicine Experts of the |Xam San (ISBN 978-3-89645-147-7)
• South African |Xam Bushmen Traditions and Their Relationships to Further Khoisan Folklore (ISBN 978-3-89645-875-9)
• Southern African Khoisan Kinship Systems (ISBN 978-3-89645-874-2)
• The |Xam and the Rain (ISBN 978-3-89645-866-7)
• The San and the Colonization of the Cape 1770–1879 (ISBN 978-3-927620-58-2)
• Towards Interdisciplinarity (ISBN 978-3-89645-886-5)

Cross-reference:

• “When War came the Cattle slept” (ISBN 978-3-89645-049-4)
• Ethnographic Encounters (ISBN 978-3-89645-512-3)
• People, Cattle and Land (ISBN 978-3-89645-363-1)

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