The Plight of the Kalahari San

Hunter-Gatherers in a Globalized World

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2227503
AutoresR K Hitchcock (0000-0001-8110-0289, University of New Mexico, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen76
Número2
Páginas164-184
Fecha de publicación2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/708394
OpenAlexW3035685959
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas26

The San (Bushmen) of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa have diversified livelihoods that are undergoing significant change. This article explores the complex challenges that San and their neighbors face, ranging from dispossession and social marginalization to climate change and the impacts of globalization. Some San have experienced involuntary resettlement from their ancestral areas because of the establishment of protected areas, agricultural projects, roads, and mines. Some have also had to deal with the criminalization of their livelihood strategies, notably hunting and gathering. Many San seek to promote their indigenous languages and cultural heritage in the face of imposed efforts to assimilate them in the countries where they reside. In recent years the San have achieved some success in organizing themselves both locally and internationally. Notably, they have filed legal cases aimed at regaining their land and resource rights in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa

Agriculture · Archaeology · Criminalization · Desert (philosophy) · Development economics · Ethnology · Face (sociological concept) · Geography · Globalization · Indigenous · Livelihood · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · History · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology