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Use of traditional medicine versus use of the community-based primary health care clinic by the San community at Platfontein
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: GF De Jager --- Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, EAM Prinsloo --- Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, G Joubert --- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences,Introduction: Working amongst a San community led to the observation that, despite the availability of modern healthcare, high mortality and morbidity associated with disease, such as dehydration, malnutrition and tuberculosis, still prevailed. This study aimed to determine how traditional beliefs... -
Ons is Boesmans: commentary on the naming of Bushmen in the southern Kalahari
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: William F. Ellis --- Centre for Humanities Research, South AfricaThis paper examines academic debates about the nomenclature of the San in light of recent ethnographic data. Academic debates centre around two aspects: the apparent complicity of the term “bushman” in construing the San as lower on the hierarchy of... -
Claiming Cape Town: towards a symbolic interpretation of Khoisan activism and land claims
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rafael Verbuyst --- African Studies Centre Leiden, The NetherlandsCurrent political negotiations in South Africa which explore the possibility of pre-1913 land claims and the recognition of Khoisan traditional authorities have spurred the growth of the “Khoisan revival”: the phenomenon of people identifying as Khoisan and asserting indigenous rights... -
“Feeling their way through their cultural roots”: theorising the Khoisan revivalist critique of authenticity from below
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rafael Verbuyst --- University of Gent, BelgiumAuthenticity is a longstanding concern in Khoisan Studies. Most scholarship has examined how stereotypical, essentialist and static notions of “authentic” Khoisan identity and culture are habitually reproduced and demanded of the Khoisan for economic or political gain. Recent work instead...