Wat Bushmen trachten te behouden …: naar aanleiding van "Inalienable possessions: the paradox of keeping-while-giving" van Annette B. Weiner (1992)
This article has a double goal. First, it tries to enlighten key notions in Weiners book: inalienable possessions, brother-sister-relations, hierarchy and equality, cosmological authentication. Second, it relates the paradox of keeping-while-giving to the concept of possession and exchange among Sou...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Gents Afrika Platform, Afrika Brug
1996-01-01
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| Series: | Afrika Focus |
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| Online Access: | http://www.gap.ugent.be/africafocus/pdf/96-12-13-Verpoorte.pdf |
| Summary: | This article has a double goal. First, it tries to enlighten key notions in Weiners book: inalienable possessions, brother-sister-relations, hierarchy and equality, cosmological authentication. Second, it relates the paradox of keeping-while-giving to the concept of possession and exchange among Southern African groups of hunters and gatherers. The article aims at clarifying the strengths and weaknesses of this paradox and contributing tot the ethnography of the Bushmen. |
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| ISSN: | 0772-084X |