Book
The Farm Bushmen of the Ghanzi District, Botswana
Stuttgart • Hochschulverlag • Published In 1979 • Pages: xii, 216
By: Guenther, Mathias Georg.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a study of acculturated San living and working on European-owned farms in the Ghanzi District of western Botswana. Ghanzi society is multi-ethnic, including not only San and Europeans, but also Coloureds and various native African groups, such as the Herero. The author's central questions in this study are the following: 1) what are the social and cultural changes experienced by the San in Ghanzi? 2) how do the San fit into the multi-ethnic society of the Ghanzi District? In answering these questions the author discusses the environment and settlement history of the Ghanzi area and the socio-economic conditions, political organization, religion, and external relations of each of the constituent ethnic groups. The author also discusses ethnic group relations and the sources of conflict between ethnic groups, with particular attention on the San and the development of San ethnic identity and nascent political activism.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Labor supply and employment
- Linguistic identification
- Ethnosociology
- Real property
- Composition of population
- Cultural participation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1921-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ghanzi District, Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mathias Georg Guenther
- A revision of the author's thesis, University of Toronto
- Detailed information in this document on the ethnic groups other than the San has not been indexed. General information on the organization of Ghanzi society and San interactions with other groups in the Ghanzi District have been indexed for Theoretical Orientation (121) and Acculturation and Culture Change (177).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81451014
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)