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Title: | African hunter-gatherers: survival, history, and the politics of identity |
Authors: | Lee, Richard B. Hitchcock, Robert K. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs: Supplementary Issue |
Issue: | 26 |
Pages: | 257-280 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subject: | hunter-gatherers |
External link: | http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68396/1/ASM_S_26_257.pdf |
Abstract: | In the 1990s and 2000s, the hunting and gathering peoples of Africa face a number of serious problems: conflict with neighbours over a shrinking land base, pressures to subordinate themselves to State policies that limit their mobility and freedom of action particularly in the area of conflict with wildlife management policies, and strong pressures to assimilate to the cultural practices of their neighbours. The authors briefly survey African hunter-gatherers, noting that African foragers group themselves into three regional supercategories in central, East and southern Africa: the 200,000 pygmies of central Africa, the 100,000 East African hunter-gatherers from a variety of locales, and the approximately 100,000 Bushmen/San of the semiarid savannas of southern Africa. They discuss how themes of hunter-gatherer pasts are woven into contemporary political consciousness, particularly in postapartheid South Africa and its neighbours, and draw attention to the emergence of a Khoisan Renaissance, based on a hidden history hitherto suppressed by colonial discourse and apartheid ideology. Bibliogr., sum. |