Tracking Indigenous Heritage

Download or read book Tracking Indigenous Heritage written by Salomé Ritterband and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Living Museums and Cultural Villages', the Ju/?hoansi San of north-eastern Namibia handle their 'Intangible Cultural Heritage' as a basis for self-determination and as a strategy to achieve their claims for indigenous rights. On a regular basis, they perform their?traditional? hunter-gatherer lifestyle for tourists as a means of generating income, while their children playfully practice and re-enact it themselves. After centuries of discrimination and marginalisation, the Ju/?hoansi are moving towards a new position inside the nation state.