ISBN:
978-90-04-27233-0
,
90-04-27233-X
,
978-90-04-28229-2 /eBook
ISSN:
1568-1203
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 410 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
African Social Studies Series 33
Keywords:
Südafrika Transvaal
;
Ethnie, Afrika
;
Venda
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Kolonialismus
;
Kolonie, britisch
;
Mission, christliche
;
Missionsgeschichte
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Rechtsgeschichte
;
Landnahme
;
Makhado, khosi [Leben und Werk])
;
Mphephu I, khosi [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objectivity and authority, even though the reality was far messier. Using a wide range of archival and printed materials from survey departments, repositories, and libraries, the author presents two distinct episodes of struggle over lands and livelihoods, one from the Eastern Cape and one from the former northern Transvaal. These cases expose the contingencies, contests, and negotiations that fundamentally shaped these changing South African landscapes.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 1: Imagining lands without chiefs -- Redefining land and location in the eastern Cape -- "Cut into little bits": engineering social order -- Survey and mediation in Fingoland -- Part 2: Locating the enduring kingdom -- The notional republic -- "Before, the entire land was Ramabulana" -- The fall and rise of Mphephu -- Objections and objectives: SANAe, the Tsewu case, and the Land Act.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 369-399
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