Native Nations
The Survival of Indigenous Peoples, 4th Edition
San of Southern Africa
Below are resources related to Robert Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli's “San of Southern Africa” chapter of Native Nations: The Survival of Indigenous Peoples, 4th Edition, edited by Sharlotte Neely and Douglas W. Hume.
Agencies & Organizations
Discussion Questions
- Describe the threats to San cultural survival by outsiders in their recent history.
- Explain the cultural changes that have occurred among the San due to external forces on them.
- The San have been involved, often successfully, in long and expensive court cases to assert their land and other rights. What other strategies have the San used to promote their rights, and how successful have these strategies been?
Documentary Films
- Bitter Roots: The Ends of a Kalahari Myth
- Botswana’s Bushmen Controversy
- Ghostland
- The Hunters
- The Third Way to Reach Remote Tribes - The San
- N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
- Who Are The San Bushmen?
Further Reading
- Biesele, Megan and Robert K. Hitchcock. 2013. The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae. Berghahn.
- Hitchcock, Robert K. 2020. The San of Southern Africa: Among the Bushmen, Nature is Appreciated, Respected, Honored and Revered. Rural Communities & Livelihoods 2-4.
- Lee, Richard B. 2012. The Dobe Ju/’hoansi. Cengage.
- Lee, Richard B., Robert K. Hitchcock, and Megan Biesele. 2002. "Foragers to First Peoples: The Kalahari San Today." Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine 26 (1). https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/foragers-first-peoples-kalahari-san-today.
- Sapignoli, Maria. 2019. Hunting Justice: Displacement, Law, and Activism in the Kalahari. Cambridge University Press.
Contemporary San People
San Distribution Map
San Ethno-historical Photograph
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