When a 200,000-Year-Old Culture Encountered the Modern Economy

Tsumkwe is the closest thing to a town in Namibia’s Nyae Nyae district, the epitome of remoteness in a country where almost everywhere is remote. Tsumkwe is also the capital of roughly 3,500 Ju/’hoansi, perhaps the best known of the few groups of people who continued to live as hunter-gatherers well into the 20th century. […]