Land Filled with Flies

A Political Economy of the Kalahari

By: Edwin N. Wilmsen

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Paperback | 15 September 1989 | Edition Number 1

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"The image of a pristine isolation has been almost as common in research on foragers as in the popular media. Land filled with Flies is a sustanined argument against such views. Wilmsen marshals an enormous quantity of historical, archival, archeological, ethnographic, and survey data on the Kalahari Zhu to show how far from the reality these images are, how they have their own historical provenance, how they have been analytically distorting, and how they have proven politically pernicious for living groups like the Zhu."-Pauline Peters, Science

"[A] major work. . . . Anthropologists will, and should, use Wilmsen's meticulously detailed study to revise their early lectures in the introductory course, and no future study of African 'foragers' should ignore it."-Parker Shipton, American Anthropologist

"An impressive book. . . . The reader need only read the first few pages to judge both the quality and ambitiousness of the work. . . . Essential reading."-David R. Penna, Africa Today

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Acknowlegments
Introduction
The Evolution of Illusion Man Hunter: A Nineteenth-Century Legacy The Received Past Search for Authenticity
The Poverty of Misappropriated Theory Return to Authenticity Revival of the Primitive Critique As They Begin to Produce, So We Begin to Know Them Foragers Come to Class The Uses of Ecology
The Past Recaptured The Recovered Past The Recorded Past
The Past Entrenched Consolidation of the Underclass The Underclass Solidified
The Ideology of Person and Place Concepts of Possession Kinship and Tenure Convergence of Indigenous Systems Coherence in Concepts of Tenure Systems
The Political Construction of Production Relations Economic Correlates of Foraging and Food Allocation of Access to the Means of Production Production as a Function of Emergent Status Structural Divisions in an Appearance of Equality Kinship as Practice Class Characteristics of Zhu Social Relations
What It Means to Be Excluded The Emergence of Ethnicity as a Central Logic Subordinate Tiers in the Labor Reserve Contemporary Relations of Production Value Flow in an Uncertain Cash Economy The Political Economy of Physiology and Physique The Direction of Intention
Notes
References
Index
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