No.70 Updating the San: Image and Reality of an African People in the 21st Century

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No.70 Updating the San: Image and Reality of an African People in the 21st Century

Senri Ethnological Studies (SES)

No.70 Updating the San: Image and Reality of an African People in the 21st Century

December 28, 2006 Publication

Edited by Robert K. Hitchcock, Kazunobu Ikeya, Megan Biesele and Richard B. Lee

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Contents

Preface

Robert K. Hitchcock, Kazunobu Ikeya. Megan Biesele ,and Richard B. Lee

1 Introduction: Updating the San, Image and Reality of an African People in the Twenty First Century

Robert K. Hitchcock, Kazunobu Ikeya. Megan Biesele , and Richard B. Lee

Health, Body and Perception

2 Confounding Conventional Wisdom: The Ju/'hoansi and HIV/AIDS

Richard B. Lee and Ida Susser

3 "Our Health Was Better in the Time of Queen Elizabeth": The Importance of Land to the Health Perception of the Botswana San

Benedicte Ingstad and Per Fugelli

4 Changes in Co-survivorship of Adult Children and Parents: Ju/'hoansi of Botswana in 1968 and 1988

Patricia Draper and Nancy Howell

5 Explaining Pathways in the Central Kalahari

Akira Takada

Development and Social Changes

6 Drinking, Fighting, and Healing: San Struggles for Survival and Solidarity in the Omaheke Region, Namibia

Renee Sylvain

7 Ju/'hoan Writers and Readers: Developing a Literate Tradition for Long-Term Language Preservation.

Megan Biesele

8 The San Culture and Education Center !Khwa ttu: A Process of Heritage Restitution

Irene Staehelin

9 San Development and Challenges in Development Cooperation

Sidsel Saugestad

Land , Identity and Human Rights

10 Land, Livestock, and Labor in Rural Botswana: The Western Sandveld Region of Central District as a Case Study

Alec Campbell, Michael Main, and Robert K. Hitchcock

11 'We Are the Owners of the Land': The San Struggle for the Kalahari and Its Resources

Robert K. Hitchcock

12 Human Rights and Refugees with Special Reference to Southern Africa

Art Hansen

13 The Thumb Piano and San Identity in Central Botswana

Kazunobu Ikeya

Index

Acronyms and Abbreviations

List of contributors

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