Disorderly development : Globalization and the idea of "culture" in the Kalahari
Disorderly development : Globalization and the idea of "culture" in the Kalahari
Sylvain, Renee, University of Guelph, Canada.
American ethnologist, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 354-370, 2005
The San (Bushmen) of southern Africa are currently engaged in global activism and local struggles for rights as indigenous people. As their identity becomes globalized, the San are encouraged to promote a stereotypical image of themselves as isolated, pristine primitives. In this article, I argue that primordial expressions of San identity reflect the globalization of an essentialist idea of culture. I examine how this idea of culture is instrumentalized in local contexts of disorder and corruption. Finally, I outline how disorder and primordialism combine to sustain systems of inequality for an underclass of farm San in the Omaheke Region of Namibia.
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