The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence : : Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa / / Megan Biesele, Robert K. Hitchcock.

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 pa...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Orthography
  • Chronology of the Nyae Nyae Region
  • Introduction A Community History
  • Chapter One Namibia and the Nyae Nyae Region
  • Chapter Two Traditional Ju/’hoan Leadership and Governance
  • Chapter Three The Ju/’hoan People’s Organization and Its Foundation
  • Chapter Four Ju/’hoan Empowerment from Dialogue on Wildlife Issues
  • Chapter Five The Lead-Up to Namibian Independence in Nyae Nyae
  • Chapter Six Independence The Years of Hope
  • Chapter Seven The Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia
  • Chapter Eight The Nyae Nyae Farmers Cooperative after Independence
  • Chapter Nine Community-Based Natural Resource Management and Other Development Models
  • Chapter Ten Nyae Nyae Conservancy Programs and the Future
  • References
  • Index