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Peter W. Culicover & Andrzej Nowak, Dynamical grammar: minimalism, acquisition and change (Foundations of Syntax 2). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii+324.
From dwelling to lodging in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy, Namibia: The meaning of the changes brought about by conservation and tourism in the Ju/’hoansi’s environment
__Abstract__
Following Ingold’s dwelling perspective, the world comes into being because an organism/person is
continuously interacting with his/her environment, through bodily activity. Dwelling is contrasted
with building, in which (wo)man constructs the world cognitively before (s)he can live in it. Here I
use a third notion, namely lodging, to refer to a situation in which people live in an essentially
foreign environment. Under the influence of a Community Based Natural Resource Management
(CBNRM) programme, the environment of the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen hunter-gatherers of the Nyae
Nyae Conservancy in Namibia is now changing severely towards conservation and tourism. In this
paper I use various case situations to show how the environment has become ever more dominant
and the people have no option but to adapt. I argue that many such changes in the environment of
the Ju/’hoansi are triggered beyond their control, instead of through their interaction with their
environment, in such a way that the Ju/’hoansi are more often lodging than dwelling. This reveals
the transformation of the cultural understanding the people have of their environment, of their
interaction with it (and with the various actors and stakeholders) and with each other
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