Title:

Updating the San: Image and Reality of an African People in the 21st Century

Publication Year:
2006
Abstract:

Long an icon of popular culture, and a fixture in anthropological text books and films, and, more recently, a subject of anthropological and political controversy, the contemporary San (Bushmen, Basarwa) peoples are framed in contradictory ways. To some they represent the image of 'pristine' hunter-gatherers, a way of life like that of humanity's ancestors, a picture of authenticity in a world of false values. To others, they stand for the opposite, in many ways apartheid's most oppressed victims, marginalized minorities called into being by centuries of subordination and more recently by the forces of global capitalism.

Publication Title:

Senri Ethnological Studies

Editor:
Hitchcock RK, Ikeya K, Biesele M, Lee RB
Volume:
70
Pages:
1-42
Item Type:
Journal Article
Language:
en