| Description |
xviii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Land filled with flies : a political economy of the Kalahari / Edwin N. Wilmsen. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Acknowlegments -- Introduction -- 1. The Evolution of Illusion -- Man Hunter: A Nineteenth-Century Legacy -- The Received Past -- Search for Authenticity -- 2. The Poverty of Misappropriated Theory -- Return to Authenticity -- Revival of the Primitive Critique -- As They Begin to Produce, So We Begin to Know Them -- Foragers Come to Class -- The Uses of Ecology -- 3. The Past Recaptured -- The Recovered Past -- The Recorded Past -- 4. The Past Entrenched -- Consolidation of the Underclass -- The Underclass Solidified -- 5. The Ideology of Person and Place -- Concepts of Possession -- Kinship and Tenure -- Convergence of Indigenous Systems -- Coherence in Concepts of Tenure Systems -- 6. The Political Construction of Production Relations -- Economic Correlates of Foraging and Food -- Allocation of Access to the Means of Production -- Production as a Function of Emergent Status -- Structural Divisions in an Appearance of Equality -- Kinship as Practice -- Class Characteristics of Zhu Social Relations -- 7. What It Means to Be Excluded -- The Emergence of Ethnicity as a Central Logic -- Subordinate Tiers in the Labor Reserve -- Contemporary Relations of Production -- Value Flow in an Uncertain Cash Economy -- The Political Economy of Physiology and Physique -- The Direction of Intention -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: San (African people) Economic conditions, Kalahari Desert Economic conditions, Hunting and gathering societies, Economic anthropology |
| Summary |
In this momentous work of scholarship, Edwin N. Wilmsen overturns one of the central concepts of anthropologic theory: the idea of remote hunter-gatherer societies untouched by contemporary political and economic forces. His subject is the San-speaking peoples of southern Africa, the so-called Bushmen, whom social scientists and bureaucrats have cited as the quintessential example of pristine prehistoric society. Marshaling ethnographic, archival, archaeological, linguistic, and biological evidence, Wilmsen shows that San have always had ties to other peoples and that their current condition as subsistence foragers is a recent development. Their marginalization-physically, economically, and geographically- began in precolonial, indigenous social formations and continued in the social and economic policies of the colonial era and its aftermath |
| Analysis |
Southern Africa Kalahari Desert Economic development Role of social anthropology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 353-387 |
| Subject |
Economic anthropology.
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Hunting and gathering societies.
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San (African people) -- Economic conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
Kalahari Desert http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071325 -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736
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Namibia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089647
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| LC no. |
89030724 |
| ISBN |
0226900142 (alk. paper) |
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0226900150 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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