"Solway does an admirable job in her introduction, describing the
three intellectual-cum-activist projects which underlie the
collection...Its most significant contribution for those already
familiar with the San literature lies in expanding the pool of
recent analyses of San identity politics, and in documenting the
rise and challenges facing the San-owned and San-oriented NGOs...
it] is also a good reference source for a broader readership seeing
an overview of Lee's intellectual legacy and its trajectories." .
Anthropos
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political
anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect
people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration
from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like
him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues
of "indigenous rights"; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial
state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and
cultures; the process of culture change; what the history and
politics of egalitarian societies reveal about issues of "human
nature" or "social evolution"; and how peoples in southern Africa
are affected by and responding to the most recent crisis in their
midst, the spread of AIDS. The authors in this volume discuss the
state of a range of contemporary debates in the field that in
various ways extend the political, theoretical, and empirical
issues that have animated Lee's work. In addition, the book
provides readers with important contemporary Kalahari studies, as
well as "classic" works on foraging societies.
Jacqueline Solway is associate professor of International
Development Studies and Anthropology at Trent University.
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