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The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology,
subjects of research going back one hundred years, of
documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy).
This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography,
collaborative (one of the writers is married to a member of the
community), reflexive (the authors become characters in the book
themselves), and literary (with poetry, dialogue, interviews,
photography, and first person accounts, as well as traditional
ethnographic description). In this book, South Africans are
studying other South Africans, in a new environment in which many
San are no longer hunter gatherers, but are activist and engaged in
cultural tourism. It will be an exciting counterpoint to
traditional ethnographies and stories about the San people, for
anthropologists and Africanists.
The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology,
subjects of research going back one hundred years, of
documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy).
This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography,
collaborative (one of the writers is married to a member of the
community), reflexive (the authors become characters in the book
themselves), and literary (with poetry, dialogue, interviews,
photography, and first person accounts, as well as traditional
ethnographic description). In this book, South Africans are
studying other South Africans, in a new environment in which many
San are no longer hunter gatherers, but are activist and engaged in
cultural tourism. It will be an exciting counterpoint to
traditional ethnographies and stories about the San people, for
anthropologists and Africanists.
Tourism growth is one of the primary drivers of economic
development and is a core strategy at local and national levels to
improve the lives of local communities. However, tourism can bring
both advantages and disadvantages to communities and not all
national strategies in tourism management are applicable or
suitable in private, community-based and public sectors. Tourism is
used as a main instrument of nation building in many postcolonial
countries such as Namibia, South Africa, Botswana and Madagascar.
Using case studies from these areas, this book examines the
strategic objectives for tourism growth and how nationally-set
objectives such as economic growth, increased employment, poverty
reduction, black economic empowerment, environmental sustainability
and reduction of regional inequalities work at the grassroots
level. Challenging ongoing practices and providing new innovations
for tourism development applicable to other developing countries,
this study will be useful for both researchers and decision makers
in tourism.
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