Pnina Motzafi‐haller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pnina Motzafi‐haller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pnina |
| FAMILY NAME | Motzafi‐haller |
| SIGNATURE | HALLER P M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When Classic Ethnographic Work Is Made Impossible: The Human Politics of Research in India
In this personal account, I describe the first days of research I begun in Rajasthan, in India in the winter of 2008. This graphic narrative of my encounters with my research interlocutors includes not only what I learned from my research subjects, a group of multiply marginalized people known as the Banjara. It also depicts my conversations with academic colleagues and assistants, local officials, and translators. It describes the human politics…
Power, identity, and history in central Botswana
This analysis offers an examination of two larger theoretical questions. The first is the question of theorizing local‐global relations; the second concerns the value of the concept of resistance. The essay describes the emergence of a new village community at the rural periphery of eastern Botswana. In exploring in great detail the complex struggles that have constituted the local politics in this rural periphery and the engagement of such local…
Liberal Discourses of Cultural Diversity and Hegemonic Constructions of Difference: Basarwa in Contemporary Botswana
Historical narratives as political discourses of identity
In December 1979, a group of twelve history students from the University of Botswana carried out one week of oral interviews in the Tswapong Hills region of east-central Botswana. Their teacher, David Kiyaga-Mulindwa, wrote that the aim was twofold: 'To train UBS history undergraduates in field methods currently used in African historical research' and 'to contribute to the history of the Batswapong through the collection and analysis of oral tra…
When Bushmen are known as Basarwa: Gender, ethnicity, and differentiation in rural Botswana
Recent scholarship on the Bushmen (San) and other hunter-gatherers calls for an understanding of the way specific historical circumstances give rise to a variety of modes of livelihood and strategies of survival of groups. However, little attention has been paid to the analysis of cultural and political dimensions of this process. This article is concerned with a group of "Basarwa" (a Setswana equivalent to "Bushmen") who have been permanent resi…
When Bushmen are known as Basarwa: Gender, ethnicity, and differentiation in rural Botswana
Recent scholarship on the Bushmen (San) and other hunter-gatherers calls for an understanding of the way specific historical circumstances give rise to a variety of modes of livelihood and strategies of survival of groups. However, little attention has been paid to the analysis of cultural and political dimensions of this process. This article is concerned with a group of "Basarwa" (a Setswana equivalent to "Bushmen") who have been permanent resi…
Historical narratives as political discourses of identity
In December 1979, a group of twelve history students from the University of Botswana carried out one week of oral interviews in the Tswapong Hills region of east-central Botswana. Their teacher, David Kiyaga-Mulindwa, wrote that the aim was twofold: 'To train UBS history undergraduates in field methods currently used in African historical research' and 'to contribute to the history of the Batswapong through the collection and analysis of oral tra…
Power, identity, and history in central Botswana
This analysis offers an examination of two larger theoretical questions. The first is the question of theorizing local‐global relations; the second concerns the value of the concept of resistance. The essay describes the emergence of a new village community at the rural periphery of eastern Botswana. In exploring in great detail the complex struggles that have constituted the local politics in this rural periphery and the engagement of such local…
Liberal Discourses of Cultural Diversity and Hegemonic Constructions of Difference: Basarwa in Contemporary Botswana
Historical narratives as political discourses of identity
In December 1979, a group of twelve history students from the University of Botswana carried out one week of oral interviews in the Tswapong Hills region of east-central Botswana. Their teacher, David Kiyaga-Mulindwa, wrote that the aim was twofold: 'To train UBS history undergraduates in field methods currently used in African historical research' and 'to contribute to the history of the Batswapong through the collection and analysis of oral tra…
When Bushmen are known as Basarwa: Gender, ethnicity, and differentiation in rural Botswana
Recent scholarship on the Bushmen (San) and other hunter-gatherers calls for an understanding of the way specific historical circumstances give rise to a variety of modes of livelihood and strategies of survival of groups. However, little attention has been paid to the analysis of cultural and political dimensions of this process. This article is concerned with a group of "Basarwa" (a Setswana equivalent to "Bushmen") who have been permanent resi…
Liberal Discourses of Cultural Diversity and Hegemonic Constructions of Difference: Basarwa in Contemporary Botswana
Power, identity, and history in central Botswana
This analysis offers an examination of two larger theoretical questions. The first is the question of theorizing local‐global relations; the second concerns the value of the concept of resistance. The essay describes the emergence of a new village community at the rural periphery of eastern Botswana. In exploring in great detail the complex struggles that have constituted the local politics in this rural periphery and the engagement of such local…
When Classic Ethnographic Work Is Made Impossible: The Human Politics of Research in India
In this personal account, I describe the first days of research I begun in Rajasthan, in India in the winter of 2008. This graphic narrative of my encounters with my research interlocutors includes not only what I learned from my research subjects, a group of multiply marginalized people known as the Banjara. It also depicts my conversations with academic colleagues and assistants, local officials, and translators. It describes the human politics…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works)