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Title:Reconstructing the recent history of the G/ui and G//ana Bushmen
Author:Osaki, Masakazu
Year:2001
Periodical:African Study Monographs: Supplementary Issue
Issue:26
Pages:27-39
Language:English
Geographic term:Botswana
Subjects:San
history
ethnic groups
External link:http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68409/1/ASM_S_26_27.pdf
Abstract:Events which may serve as clues to establishing a chronology for the history of the G/ui and G//ana Bushmen of the Xade area in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana, are the invasion of the Ndebele in the first half of the 19th century, the locust swarms of 1924-1925 and 1934-1935, the smallpox epidemic of 1950-1951, and the establishment of !Koi!kom borehole in 1963. The oldest event in the Bushman chronology is the swarm of locusts in 1924-1925. Based on interviews with elderly persons conducted in Xade in 1995 and 1997, the author reconstructs the historical situation in the Central Kalahari before and after the locust attack, and clarifies the relations between the G/ui and G//ana Bushmen and the Kgalagadi and the Tswana. Bushmen used to pay tributes ('kaico') to the Tswana and the Kgalagadi. While the Tswana perceived themselves as dominating the Bushmen, the Bushmen did not see themselves as subordinate to the Tswana. Moreover, it was only the chief and his family who paid tributes and for the Bushmen this was just a part of trade. Bibliogr., sum.
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