Ethnicity, hunter-gatherers, and the "other"
Subtitle: association or assimilation in Africa
By: edited by Susan Kent
Contributors: Kent, Susan, 1952-
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Africa; Hunting and gathering societies -- Africa; Herders -- Africa; Traditional farming -- Africa; Assimilation (Sociology) -- Africa; Africa -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-347) and index
Table of contents: title: Interethnic encounters of the first kind: an introduction / Susan Kent; title: Encapsulated bushmen in the archaeology of Thamaga / Karim Sadr; title: Autonomy or serfdom? Relations between prehistoric neighboring hunter-gatherers and farmer/pastoralists in southern Africa / Susan Kent; title: Optimistic realism or opportunistic subordination? The interaction of the G/wi and G//ana with outsiders / Kazuyoshi Sugawara; title: Independence, resistance, accommodation, persistence: hunter-gatherers and agropastoralists in the Ghanzi Veld, early 1800s to mid-1900s / Mathias Guenther; title: Dangerous interactions: the repercussions of western culture, missionaries, and disease in southern Africa / Susan Kent; title: Solitude or servitude? Ju/âhoansi images of the colonial encounter / Richard B. Lee; title: Cultural contact in Africa, past and present: multidisciplinary perspectives on the status of African foragers / Alison Brooks; title: The complexities of association and assimilation: an ethnographic overview / Alan Barnard and Michael Taylor; title: Why the Hadza are still hunter-gatherers / Frank Marlowe; title: Putting hunter-gatherer and farmer relations in perspective: a commentary from central Africa / Axel Köhler and Jerome Lewis