ISBN:
9781666900590
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 174 Seiten)
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Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Viljoen, Russel Stafford, - 1967- Khoikhoi, microhistory, and colonial characters at the Cape of Good Hope
DDC:
305.896/10687
Keywords:
Khoikhoi (African people) Social life and customs
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Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) History To 1795
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Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) History 1795-1872
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Netherlands Colonies
Abstract:
"The genre of microhistory has given Indigenous Khoikhoi individuals of modest status a voice and a place in South African historiography. This book examines the lived and everyday-life experiences of Khoikhoi characters in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial South Africa"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Microhistory and Reclaiming Histories of the Modest -- Love, Lust and Loathe: The Story of "Lost Love": Griet and Hendrik Eksteen, c.1739-1759 -- Master, Malcontent, and Murderer: Khoikhoi Andries and Johannes Adriaan de Necker in Dutch-South Africa, c.1764-1766 -- Jan Paerl c.1788-1851: Restitutionist, Religious Prophet, and Respectable Convert -- "Soil Once His Own": The Colonial and Christian World of Lebrecht Hans Ari: A Khoikhoi and Moravian Convert at the Cape, c.1774-1864 -- "Sketching the Khoikhoi": George French Angas and His Depiction of Genadendal Khoikhoi Characters at the Cape of Good Hope, c.1847
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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