The Ju/'Hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence: Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

by Megan Biesele, Robert K Hitchcock, Robert K. Hitchcock

Book Overview

The Ju/'hoan San, or Ju/'hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this group in the writings of Richard Lee, Lorna Marshall,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782380590
• ISBN13: 9781782380597
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"