Indigenous rights in Southern Africa: International mechanisms and local contexts

International Journal of Human Rights

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Hays, Jennifer ^a   Biesele, Megan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Kalahari Peoples Fund   (United States)

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EID: 79551543233     PISSN: 13642987     EISSN: 1744053X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2011.529686     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. According to the Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA), Botswana has about 46,000 San, and Namibia 38,000; there are also 7000 in Angola and 6000 in South Africa, with small communities of a few hundred in Zambia and Zimbabwe http://www.wimsanet.org (accessed 21 November 2010).
2. The families all fall under one cluster, Khoe-San.
3. See Tom Güldemann and Rainer Vossen, 'Khoisan', in African Languages: An Introduction, ed. Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 99-122.
4. For a comprehensive description of the problems facing the indigenous populations of southern Africa today
5. see the edited volume by Robert Hitchcock and Diana Vinding, Indigenous Peoples Rights in Southern Africa (Copenhagen: IWGIA, 2004)
6. Alan Barnard, Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) provides a thorough overview of the San cultural groupings.
7. Robert K. Hitchcock and Lola Garcia-Alix. 'Report from the Field: The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Implementation and Implications', Genocide Studies and Prevention 4, no. 1 (2009): 99-109.
8. They cite also: Julian Burger, Report from the Frontier: The State of the World's Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed Press, 1987)
9. Julian Burger, The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples: A Future for the Indigenous World (New York and London: Anchor Books, 1990)
10. David Maybury-Lewis, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1997)
11. John Bodley, Victims of Progress (Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing, 1999)
12. Patrick Thornberry, Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).
13. See, for example, Mark Goodale, ed. Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader (West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
14. American Anthropologist special issue: 'Anthropology and Human Rights in a New Key' 108, no.1 (2006).
15. Authors in both of these collections (and others) have explored the contributions that an anthropological engagement with human rights issues can make, both to theoretical understanding and practical implementation efforts.
16. Nigel Crawhall, 'Africa and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', The International Journal of Human Rights 15, no. 1 (2011): this issue.
17. Adam Kuper, 'The Return of the Native', Current Anthropology 44 (2003): 389-402
18. Stephen Corry and James Suzman's debate in Before Farming 14 (2002/2003): 1-10
19. Justin Kenrick and Jerome Lewis, 'Indigenous Peoples' Rights and the Politics of the Term 'Indigenous', Anthropology Today 20 (2004): 4-9.
20. Kuper, 'Return of the Native'
21. Alan Barnard, 'Kalahari Revisionism, Vienna and the 'Indigenous Peoples' Debate', Social Anthropology 14, no. 1 (2008): 1-16.
22. Andre Bétéille, 'The Idea of Indigenous People', Current Anthropology 39 (1998): 187-91;
23. Kuper, 'Return of the Native'.
24. James Suzman, 'Indigenous Wrongs and Human Rights: National Policy, International Resolutions and the Status of the San of Southern Africa', in Africa's Indigenous Peoples.
25. 'First Peoples or Marginalized Minorities?', ed. Alan Barnard and Justin Kenrick (Edinburgh: Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2001), 273-97
26. James Suzman, 'Response from James Suzman to Stephen Corry', Before Farming 14 (2002/2003): 4-10.
27. Sidsel Saugestad, 'Contested Images. "First Peoples" or "Marginalized Minorities" in Africa?', in Africa's Indigenous Peoples. 'First Peoples or Marginalized Minorities?', ed. Barnard and Kenrick (Edinburgh: Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2001), 299-322.
28. Saugestad, 'Contested Images'
29. Kenrick and Lewis, 'Indigenous Peoples' Rights'.
30. Sidsel Saugestad, 'Beyond the "Columbus Context": New Challenges as the Indigenous Discourse is Applied to Africa', in Indigenous Peoples: Self-determination, Knowledge, Identity, ed. Henry Minde (2008), 157-73, 170.
31. Justin Kenrick, 'The Concept of Indigeneity', Social Anthropology 14, no. 1 (2006): 20 (emphasis added).
32. Saugestad, 'Contested Images'.
33. Werner Zips, 'Discussion: The Concept of Indigeneity', Social Anthropology 14, no. 1 (2006): 27-9, 27.
34. Ibid., 28; emphasis in original.
35. Ibid., 27, emphasis added.
36. Barnard, 'Kalahari Revisionism', 10, emphasis in original.
37. James Anaya, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
38. Kenrick, 'The Concept of Indigeneity', 19.
39. Saugestad, 'Contested Images', 307.
40. Sidsel Saugestad, 'Impact of International Mechanisms on Indigenous Rights in Botswana', The International Journal of Human Rights 15, no. 1 (2011): this issue.
41. Robert K. Hitchcock, Maria Sapignoli and Wayne A. Babchuk, 'What About Our Rights? Settlements, Subsilence and Livelihood Security among Central Kalahari San and Bakgalagadi', The International Journal of Human Rights, 15, no. 1 (2011): this issue.
42. Anaya, Indigenous Peoples in International Law, 97.
43. Crawhall, 'African and the UNDRIP'.
44. Ibid., 103
45. see also Hitchcock and Garcia-Alix, 'Report from the Field'.
46. Rodney Hopson, 'Language Rights and the San in Namibia: A Fragile and Ambiguous but Necessary Proposition', The International Journal of Human Rights, 15, no. 1 (2011): this issue.
47. Jennifer Hays, 'Educational Rights for Indigenous Communities in Botswana and Namibia', The International Journal of Human Rights 15, no. 1 (2011): this issue.
48. UNDRIP, Article 14.
49. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, 'Making the Declaration Work', in Making the Declaration Work: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ed. Claire Charters and Roldolfo Stavenhagen (IWGIA: Copenhagen, 2009), 365.
50. Hitchcock and Garcia-Alix, 'Report from the Field', 106.
51. Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA), Second WIMSA International Conference on San Languages in Education, Penduka Training Centre, Katutura, Namibia, 31 August-2 September 2004.