In the Tradition of the Forefathers by White, Hylton
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ISBN: 9780799215137
UCT Press, 01 January 1995
Paperback, 60 pages
In the Tradition of the forefathers is a study of the 'traditional' hunter-gather identity of a group of Bushmen who exhibit themselves to tourists at the Kagga Kamma Nature Reserve in the Northern Cape of South Africa
Hylton White argues that the Bushmen's identity has been created in reaction to the experiences of dispossession and wage labour. The emphasis that the Reserve lays on preserving Bushman cultural heritage bestows ambiguous benefits on the Bushmen.
Like exhibits in museums , the controversy Kagga Kamma reflects, over how to preserve people's vanishing culture, continues unresolved.