ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, Hunter-Gatherer
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!kung people not called that anymore now called ju/"hoansi = true people ju (person) Bushman as a term has overlying racist connotations. For 80 to 100 years have lost their hunter gatherer status. Have worked as laborers for white cattle farmers, now wear western cloths, very tattered very poor. Afrikaners dutch/german living in namibia and south africa (white land owners) Hereros (bantu speakers) very different language, tall dark skinned. They are one of the most marginalized, stigmatized impoverished people in southern africa. They are paid very little, sometimes only cloths and food, sometimes only in home made beer. When apartheid ended in south africa, it ended in namibia too. Gender, race, class distinctions and the rights associated with the above people. She will be drawing from her research in the course. Mainkin (journalist) defined the purpose of journalism as this: to comfort the afflict and to afflict the comfortable .