Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the "Other" Association or Assimilation in Africa

by Kent, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781588340603
• ISBN10: 1588340600
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-17
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press

Summary

An international team of experts present their insights into how one type of society, African hunter-gatherers, has managed to survive long past the first contact between foragers, farmers, and pastoralists.

Author Biography

Susan Kent was an eminent scholar and professor of sociology at Old Dominion University. In 1999 she received the Charles O. and Elisabeth C. Burgess Faculty Research and Creativity Award, and in May 2000 was named an eminent scholar for her long and consistent record of outstanding scholarly publications and her national and international reputation in the field of anthropology.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Tables	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Interethnic Encounters of the First Kind: An Introduction	1	(27)
Susan Kent
Encapsulated Bushmen in the Archaeology of Thamaga	28	(20)
Karim Sadr
Autonomy or Serfdom? Relations between Prehistoric Neighboring Hunter-Gatherers and Farmer/Pastoralists in Southern Africa	48	(45)
Susan Kent
Optimistic Realism or Opportunistic Subordination? The Interaction of the G/ wi and G/ / ana with Outsiders	93	(34)
Kazuyoshi Sugawara
Independence, Resistance, Accommodation, Persistence: Hunter-Gatherers and Agropastoralists in the Ghanzi Veld, Early 1800s to Mid-1900s	127	(23)
Mathias Guenther
Dangerous Interactions: The Repercussions of Western Culture, Missionaries, and Disease in Southern Africa	150	(34)
Susan Kent
Solitude or Servitude? Ju/'hoansi Images of the Colonial Encounter	184	(22)
Richard B. Lee
Cultural Contact in Africa, Past and Present: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Status of African Foragers	206	(24)
Alison Brooks
The Complexities of Association and Assimilation: An Ethnographic Overview	230	(17)
Alan Barnard
Michael Taylor
Why the Hadza Are Still Hunter-Gatherers	247	(29)
Frank Marlowe
Putting Hunter-Gatherer and Farmer Relations in Perspective: A Commentary from Central Africa	276	(31)
Axel Kohler
Jerome Lewis
References Cited	307	(42)
Contributors	349	(4)
Index	353