Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 71 Seiten)
Edition:
Culture and Environment in Africa Series 8.pdf
Series Statement:
Culture and Environment in Africa Series Issue 8
Keywords:
Südafrika Namibia
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San
;
Eigentum
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Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
Abstract:
One very popular field of investigation in hunter-gatherer research is normative sharing as a means to sustain egalitarian structures within hunting and gathering societies. It has been hypothesized that such sharing practices may inhibit economic development in these societies as they are based on immediate-return strategies. In a world that is increasingly based on delayed-return subsistence and long-term planning the sharing norms that are widely associated with the San groups of Southern Africa may be an obstacle to their economic performance. However, it remains to be evaluated to what extent such norms are still a part of their daily life and whether their sedentarization together with other groups has caused a change in their sharing behavior. Looking at two Namibian resettlements with a considerably large number of San, this case study evaluates the role of sharing among former hunter-gathers in relation to neighboring `Non-San` groups. It finds that there is no substantial difference in the performance and likeliness of sharing between San and `Non-San` in Skoonheid and Drimiopsis, but it continues to play a strong discursive role in both fractions. This dissonance between the absence of normative sharing practices and the continuity of sharing as a discursive tool reveals the actual dilemma. (Verlagsangaben)
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 68-71
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Masterarbeit, Köln, Universität zu Köln, 2016
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