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Title: | Visiting Relations and Social Interactions between Residential Groups of the Central Kalahari |
Author: | Sugawara, Kazuyoshi |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 173-211 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Botswana |
Subjects: | San hunter-gatherers sedentarization Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/ASM%20%20Vol.8%20No.4%201988/Kazuyoshi%20SUGAWARA.pdf |
Abstract: | Since 1979 the Botswana government has prompted the Central Kalahari San in the Kade area to settle at !Koi!kom. In this sedentary community, the author observed visiting activity between residential groups (camps), noting sexual differences in visiting activity and the various kinds of social and economic transactions realized through visiting activity. Longitudinal analysis of the composition of visitors demonstrates that a great part of the San living in camps other than the study group have never visited the latter during either the first (1982-1983) or the second (1984-1985) study periods. This discontinuity in the networks of visiting relationship leads to a reconsideration of the concept of 'band'. The spatial organization of the camp can well be characterized as a multilayered microterritory. Greeting interaction is a specific way in which those who enter the microterritory establish focused interaction with its occupants. The ground rules, or conventional programmes, governing the San greeting reveal two main themes: the openness of a camp, and the definite distinction between residents and nonresidents. Bibliogr., notes. |