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dc.contributor.authorNinkova, Velina
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-26T13:18:20Z
dc.date.available2022-02-26T13:18:20Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-24
dc.description.abstractThe Ju|’hoansi of east central Namibia sometimes refer to the state as a whiteman and to the whiteman as a /’hun (steenbok). In this article, I contextualize these naming practices by tracing the history of colonial encounters on the fringes of the Western Kalahari through a small-scale animist perspective. I then discuss what this means for the concept of ‘recognition’, which I treat as a two-way intersubjective process of making oneself un/knowable to others. I argue that the Ju|’hoansi have engaged in parallel processes of mis/recognition vis-à-vis their colonial Others. By failing to enter into reciprocal relations with the Ju|’hoansi, the whiteman and the state have remained outside of the Ju|’hoansi's social universe and have thus compromised their own personhood.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNinkova V. The state as a whiteman, the whiteman as a |'hun: Personhood, recognition, and the politics of knowability in the Kalahari. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2022en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1962739
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-9655.13703
dc.identifier.issn1359-0987
dc.identifier.issn1467-9655
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24165
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleThe state as a whiteman, the whiteman as a |'hun: Personhood, recognition, and the politics of knowability in the Kalaharien_US
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dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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