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Article: Research stories from the Kalahari.(Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest: Research Stories from the Kalahari)(Book review)
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- Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
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- January 1, 2007
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Keyan G Tomaselli. 2005. Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest. Research Stories from the Kalahari. SAVUSA-series. Amsterdam: Rozenberg.
Writing in 2001 on "African hunter-gatherers: survival, history, and the politics of identity" Lee and Hitchcock came to the following conclusion:
Cultural diversity old and new represented by the hunting and
gathering peoples of Africa is part of the heritage of all
humanity. It is important that members of these societies
themselves be drawn into the task of valorizing and preserving
their own cultural heritage. Ultimately it is they who will carry
forward this work. (2001:280)
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