Book contents
- Bushmen
- Bushmen
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Pronunciation and Orthography
- 1 Bushmen
- 2 The Politics of Indigeneity
- 3 How Far Back Can We Go?
- 4 Discovery and Destruction of the /Xam
- 5 The !Xoõ and Their Neighbours
- 6 G/wi, G//ana and the Central Kalahari
- 7 Naro
- 8 Ju/’hoansi or !Kung
- 9 Hai//om
- 10 Bushmen of the Okavango
- 11 Sharing the Land with Others
- 12 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- References
2 - The Politics of Indigeneity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 July 2019
- Bushmen
- Bushmen
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Pronunciation and Orthography
- 1 Bushmen
- 2 The Politics of Indigeneity
- 3 How Far Back Can We Go?
- 4 Discovery and Destruction of the /Xam
- 5 The !Xoõ and Their Neighbours
- 6 G/wi, G//ana and the Central Kalahari
- 7 Naro
- 8 Ju/’hoansi or !Kung
- 9 Hai//om
- 10 Bushmen of the Okavango
- 11 Sharing the Land with Others
- 12 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
Right to land is among the most significant interests for San today. Very often, these interests are couched in terms of ‘indigeneity’ or being indigenous to some particular territory, and therefore having rights that others will not enjoy. Several ILO Conventions (especially ILO Convention 169, in 1989), and pronouncements by the World Bank and the UN Working Group for Indigenous Peoples have altered definitions of who is, and therefore who is not, to be considered indigenous. Yet, as anthropologists (especially Adam Kuper) have made clear, neither the definition nor the rights are as obvious as claimed. What about someone who is half Bushman? Or ¼ Bushman? Or who has never been a hunter-gatherer? What special rights might such a person enjoy? Is a claim to such privileges not the same as those made by whites in the ‘old’ South Africa? Much ink has been spilled on these questions, and the decisions of Botswana courts on Bushman claims to land and other resources, especially in the CKGR, has been ambiguous. This chapter will review the literature on these issues.
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- BushmenKalahari Hunter-Gatherers and Their Descendants, pp. 18 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019