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White Namibians in tourism and the politics of belonging through Bushmen
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Stasja P. Koot --- International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The NetherlandsNamibian Bushmen, such as the Hai//om and the Ju/’hoansi, are increasingly involved in the growing, white-dominated tourism industry. In this, white Namibians tend to position Bushmen and themselves as people of nature and conservationists. Elsewhere, whites from southern Africa have... -
The burden of responsibility and the breakdown of traditional paternalism on farms in the Western Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Handri Walters --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThe transition that followed the 1994 democratic election in South Africa brought with it a host of progressive legislation aimed at the provision of a secure environment for those previously marginalised. The Extension of Security of Tenure Act (ESTA) (1997)... -
Becoming and unbecoming farm workers in Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Maxim Bolt --- Department of African Studies and Anthropology, United KingdomMore than most forms of employment in Southern Africa, farm work seems to evoke the past. Recent events, however, have foregrounded global integration and cost-cutting casualisation as much as plantation-style racialised hierarchies. Legacies of farmer paternalism, themselves shaped by workers’...