Outline of the economic strategies of the urban bushmen dwellers : Case study of the !Xun living in the Omulunga township of Grootfontein in Namibia

• Authors: Radek Nedvěd
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Based on several field research trips between 2007 and 2011, this study presents data in the neglected field of research on urban Bushmen dwellers. It describes the limited economic opportunities and coping strategies of the !Xun Bushmen living in the township Omulunga of the town Grootfontein in the north of the commercial farming area in Namibia.

Keywords

EN

Namibia; urbanisation; Bushmen; economic and coping strategies

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 101
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 299-320
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Radek Nedvěd

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic