Title: Ethnicity, hunter-gatherers, and the "other" : association or assimilation in Africa /
Authors: Kent, Susan, 1952-2003.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Ethnicity Africa; Hunting and gathering societies Africa.; Hunting and gathering societies Africa Cultural assimilation.; Herders Africa.; Herders Africa Cultural assimilation.; Traditional farming Africa.; Assimilation (Sociology); Assimilation (Sociology) Africa.; Africa Ethnic relations.
Contents: Interethnic encounters of the first kind: an introduction / Susan Kent -- Encapsulated bushmen in the archaeology of Thamaga / Karim Sadr -- Autonomy or serfdom? Relations between prehistoric neighboring hunter-gatherers and farmer/pastoralists in southern Africa / Susan Kent -- Optimistic realism or opportunistic subordination? The interaction of the G/wi and G//ana with outsiders / Kazuyoshi Sugawara -- Independence, resistance, accommodation, persistence: hunter-gatherers and agropastoralists in the Ghanzi Veld, early 1800s to mid-1900s / Mathias Guenther -- Dangerous interactions: the repercussions of western culture, missionaries, and disease in southern Africa / Susan Kent -- Solitude or servitude? Ju/h́oansi images of the colonial encounter / Richard B. Lee -- Cultural contact in Africa, past and present: multidisciplinary perspectives on the status of African foragers / Alison Brooks -- The complexities of association and assimilation: an ethnographic overview / Alan Barnard and Michael Taylor -- Why the Hadza are still hunter-gatherers / Frank Marlowe -- Putting hunter-gatherer and farmer relations in perspective: a commentary from central Africa / Axel Köhler and Jerome Lewis.