. “Captured on Film”: Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives
. “Captured on Film”: Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives
This chapter focuses on performative primitives in Africa. It examines how the Bushmen have become caught up in a dance that contains steps of their own devising but is at the same time staged by colonialism. It explains that performance is very much part of the ideological genealogy of the people of Kagga Kamma and suggests that those labeled Bushmen have actively and successfully exploited the ambiguities of their imposed identities.
Keywords: performative primitives, Africa, Bushmen, dance, performance, colonialism, ideological genealogy, Kagga Kamma
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