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Bushman Myth The The Making a Numibian Underclass of Second Edition - ROBERT I J. GORDON and STUART SHOLTO DOUGLAS Conflict and Social Change Series • Westview Press Library Public Boston The BUSHMAN MYTH Digitized by the Internet Archive 2015 in https://archive.org/details/bushmanmythmakinOOgord , , , , Conflict and Social Change Series Series Editors Scott Whiteford and William Derman Michigan State University TheBushmanMyth: TheMakingofaNamibian Underclass RobertJ. Gordon Surviving Drought and Development: The Ariaal ofNorthern Kenya Elliot M. Fratkin HarvestofWant:HungerandFoodSecurity inCentralAmericaandMexico edited by Scott Whiteford and Anne Ferguson Singingwith SaiBaba: ThePolitics ofRevitalization in Trinidad Morton Klass The Spiral Road: Change in a Chinese Village Through the Eyes ofa Communist PartyLeader, Huang Shu-min StrugglingforSurvival: Workers, Women, and Class on aNicaraguan StateFarm, Gary Ruchwarger FORTHCOMING TheMyth oftheMaleBreadwinner: Women, Industrialization, and StatePolicy in the Caribbean, Helen I. Safa Literacy andPeopledPowerin aMozambicanFactory,Judith Marshall Computing Myths, Class Realities: An Ethnography ofSheffield Workers in the InformationAge, David Hakken with Barbara Andrews Sickness, Healing, and Gender in RuralEgypt: A Political-Economy Ethnography, Soheir A. Morsy Bushman casts in the South African Museum in Cape Town have always attracted tourists. (Photo courtesy of author) SECOND EDITION The BUSHMAN MYTH The Making of a Namibian Underclass ROBERT GORDON J. University ofVermont STUART SHOLTO DOUGLAS Rice University A MemberofthePerseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printedin the UnitedStatesofAmerica. No partofthis publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, in- cludingphotocopy, recording, oranyinformation storage and retrieval system, without per- mission inwritingfrom the publisher. Copyright©2000byWestviewPress,AMemberofthe PerseusBooksGroup Published in 2000 in the United States ofAmericabyWestviewPress, 5500 CentralAvenue, Boulder, Colorado 80301-2877, and in the United Kingdom by Westview Press, 12 Hid’s Copse Road, CumnorHill, Oxford OX29JJ Finduson theWorldWideWebatwww.westviewpress.com LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Gordon,Robert 1947- J., TheBushman—myth : themakingofaNamibianunderclass/ RobertJ. Gordon,Stuart SholtoDouglas. 2nded. — p. cm. (Conflictandsocialchangeseries) Rev. ed. of:The Bushmanmyth / RobertJ. Gordon. 1992. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-8133-3581-7 (pb) — 1. San (African people). 2. Namibia Socialconditions. 3. Culture conflict. 4. Intercultural communication. I. SholtoDouglas, Stuart. II.Title. III. Series. DT1558.S38 G67 2000 — 306’096881 dc21 99-049180 Th paperused in this publication meets the requirements oftheAmerican National Stan- 9876543 dardforPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterialsZ39.48-1984. 10 PERSEUS ONDEMAND ? Contents List ofTables andIllustrations xi Preface xiii 1 TheBushmen:AMergerofFantasy andNightmare 1 The Politics ofLabeling Bushmen, 4 Speaking for the Bushmen, 8 Storyline, 10 Part 1: What*s in a Name 2 LocatingtheBushmen 15 3 Bushman CopperandAutonomy 25 Copper and the Ovambo, 25 Relationships with Pastoralists, 28 4 TheIncorporation ofBushmen into the WorldSystem 33 Contemporary Views ofBushmen, 36 The Demise ofthe Trade Boom, 38 Upingtonia and the First Namibian War ofLiberation, 40 5 ClassifyingBushmen:ItinerantScientists 43 Part 2: The ColonialPresence 6 TheImposition ofthe ColonialState 49 thi 7 The “BushmanPlague” of1911 Academics and the Notion ofa Bushman Reserve, 60 The Influence ofthe Missions, 64 Education Through Labor, 65 8 FromPolicy toPractice 9 BushmanHunts andBushman Gangs Bushman Patrols, 78 The “Notorious” Hans Gang, 81 Part 3: The Sacred Trust 10 SouthAfricanRapprochement Land and Murder, 92 The van Ryneveld Affair, 92 11 LaboringLegitimacy Legalizing Action Against Bushmen, 102 Fear as Social Control, 103 The Elusive Bushmen as a Police Problem, 105 12 Beyond thePoliceZone:DisruptingtheLaborSupply 13 ExtendingAdministrative Control:Bushmen “Reserved” Native Reserves, 119 The Etosha Game Park, 123 Native Reserves Beyond the Police Zone, 124 14 Reaction and Counterreaction Tightening the Legal Noose, 129 From Object to Subject in Bushman Banditry, 132 15 Bushmen “Tamed”:Life on theFarm Missionary Efforts: The Roman Catholics, 143 Missionary Efforts: Lutheran Proselytization, 144
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