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Street Khoisan : On Belonging, Recognition and Survival

Author :  Siv Overness

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Country
South Africa
Publisher
UNISA Press, Pretoria, South Africa
ISBN 9781776150533
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info xiv, 260p. Includes Index ; Bibliography
Product Weight 500 gms.
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It was a rainy day back in the 1990s, when Priscilla said it. 'I am Khoe'. Her words surprised Siv Overnes. Caught in her ignorance, Siv wondered: 'but the Khoisan are no longer around, are they?' From that moment, Siv developed a keen interest in embarking on this ethnography on street life and Khoisan belonging. From a marginal part of a wider Khoisan world, Siv Overnes learnt from street people in Cape Town about the meaning of Khoisan belonging. 'Being strong' and 'being survivors' but also the predicaments of having 'lost all' and 'being down on luck,' was linked to a Khoisan past and present. Albeit whispered about rather than shouted out in the open, Khoisan belonging was meaningful on the streets and taken to heart by many street people. This book searches for answers why. Currently, it is no longer a surprise that the Khoisan are part of the South African nation. They are 'everywhere', and not only on the streets. Colonisation, assimilation and acculturation did not make the Khoisan disappear. Self-naming have carried resilience here, as in other places where indigenous identities have been muted and esoteric. While focusing on the Khoisan, this book includes a juxtaposition between Khoisan experiences with glimpses of the indigenous Coastal Sami's history from the author's home ground in Norway. As they have for centuries, indigenous people continue to survive.

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