Taking stock in the Kalahari

Accumulation and resistance on the Southern African periphery

Bibliographic Data

ID4603206
AuthorsJacqueline S Solway, Jacqueline Solway (Trent University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume24
Issue2
Pages425-441
Publication date1998-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057079808708583
OpenAlexW2018173650
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited42

This paper examines the relationship between patterns of accumulation, the cultural forms through which change is understood and experienced, and resistance in the Kalahari, Botswana. The paper argues that contemporary forms of accumulation and social differentiation constitute a break from past forms and are resulting in an uneven process of class formation. However, these changes can be assimilated, to a large degree, within existing ideological and behavioural models so that discontinuity is not always evident. As a result the process of change is muted, and a minimum of conflict accompanies a major transformation. The social domains which do become contested are those in which structural change produces a situation in which the moral grounds of the kin‐based community are violated. The paper acknowledges the complexities of power as well as the forces of cohesion and consensus which exist simultaneously in the Kalahari and in which any analysis of resistance must be contextualized

Archaeology · Biology · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Stock (firearms · African history and culture studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · South African History and Culture · Ecology

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