Bushmen In The Kalahari Desert

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Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert Bushmen rather known as San or Basarwa were the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. They had a fateful past of poverty, social rejection, decline of cultural identity, and discrimination, yet they still got recognition from their knowledge and traditions. There located in Southern Africa, where there separated into different tribes around the region. Due to the presence of technology these tribes are slowly coming to an extinct. The Bushmen of the Kalahari tribe will be analyzed through a sociological view of Neo Marxism and portrayed as a tribe who has no economic system, yet they all have an equal share of goods found within the desert. The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert lived for over 20 000 years. There separated into different tribes around the region. San communities are up to 25 men, women, and children. At times, different groups join for news or gifts, during special occasions and visits. The Bushmen lived in a culture different from ours, where nothing is bad. There were no laws, no police, no crime, and no rulers. They lived in isolation, where no one owned anything; everyone would share everything to each other. It was just day and night to the Bushmen, they never knew what the time and day was. They were unfamiliar with technology and believed god was anyone who appeared different from themselves. Neo-Marxism is based on ideas initially projected by Karl Marx. Marx told that economic power is the key to understanding societies. For Neo-Marxism communism is a good thing. According to Neo-Marxists, if we want to understand society we must understand the economic system. Neo-Marxists share a common acceptance of the importance of gender/sex divisions. However, Neo Marxists still gave it less importance than class divisions under capitalism so as a result they thought the main use was class not gender. This states that
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