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Afrikaners of the Kalahari

Author : Margo Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521218977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Afrikaners of the Kalahari written by Margo Russell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of the Kalahari is a romantic one of desert space and untouched Bushmen. The popular image of the Afrikaners is of a unique and vicious racialism. Yet Afrikaners have been living in the Kalahari for more than a hundred years, their presence often studiously ignored by writers; and since 1961 independent Botswana with its policy of scrupulous non-racialism has embraced both Afrikaner and Bushman in common citizenship. This book attempts to describe the complex and mundane reality of ethnic relations in the Kalahari, not only in the present, harried by relentless pressure to enter the cash economy of modernisation, but in the past. Using oral history as a source, the authors describe the 'Africanisation' of these poor white pastoralists of the interior, cut off by the thirstland from those influences which gave contemporary Afrikanerdom its particular cast. They describe the pragmatic relations developed by Afrikaners with other peoples of the interior, and how these have been perceived and redefined with the decisive shift in political power from British to Tswana hands.

Man's Most Dangerous Myth

Author : Ashley Montagu
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0585345481
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Man's Most Dangerous Myth written by Ashley Montagu and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man's Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people's character and intelligence. It presented a revolutionary theory for its time; breaking the link between genetics and culture, it argued that race is largely a social construction and not constitutive of significant biological differences between people. In the ensuing 55 years, as Ashley Montagu's radical hypothesis became accepted knowledge, succeeding editions of his book traced the changes in our conceptions of race and race relations over the 20th century. Now, over 50 years later, Man's Most Dangerous Myth is back in print, fully revised by the original author. Montagu is internationally renowned for his work on race, as well as for such influential books as The Natural Superiority of Women, Touching, and The Elephant Man. This new edition contains Montagu's most complete explication of his theory and a thorough updating of previous editions. The Sixth Edition takes on the issues of the Bell Curve, IQ testing, ethnic cleansing and other current race relations topics, as well as contemporary restatements of topics previously addressed. A bibliography of almost 3,000 published items on race, compiled over a lifetime of work, is of enormous research value. Also available is an abridged student edition containing the essence of Montagu's argument, its policy implications, and his thoughts on contemporary race issues for use in classrooms. Ahead of its time in 1942, Montagu's arguments still contribute essential and salient perspectives as we face the issue of race in the 1990s. Man's Most Dangerous Myth is the seminal work of one of the 20th century's leading intellectuals, essential reading for all scholars and students of race relations.

Genocide on Settler Frontiers

Author : Mohamed Adhikari
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782387390
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Genocide on Settler Frontiers written by Mohamed Adhikari and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clashed with hunter-gatherers were particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves. The experience of aboriginal peoples in the settler colonies of southern Africa, Australia, North America, and Latin America bears this out. The frequency with which encounters of this kind resulted in the annihilation of forager societies raises the question of whether these conflicts were inherently genocidal, an issue not yet addressed by scholars in a systematic way.

Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521428651
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa written by Alan Barnard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the influence of environment on culture and social organization among the Khoisan, a cluster of southern African peoples, comprised of the Bushmen or San "hunters," the Khoekhoe "herders", and the Damara, (also herders).

Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers

Author : Susan Kent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521482370
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers written by Susan Kent and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines variability within broadly defined African forager societies. Foragers have been seen as culturally similar as they all pursue a subsistence strategy emphasising hunting and gathering. However, new research suggests there may be more diversity among groups than has been acknowledged. Here, leading scholars contrast groups with in forager societies. Chapters range in scope from symbolic to ecological and behavioural, providing invaluable data on hunter-gatherer life for anyone concerned with past or present foragers.

Perspectives on Africa

Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444335227
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Africa written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization

Politics and History in Band Societies

Author : Richard Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521240635
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Politics and History in Band Societies written by Richard Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this volume present important information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. The volume focuses on two themes: first, on the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organise their social and economic lives; and second, on their fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy. The contributors maintain that gatherer-hunters are not examples of a disappearing way of life, but peoples who have maintained their social and economic practices through long periods of contact with stratified societies. The aim of this volume it to make known to as wide an audience as possible the daily lives, the patterns of relations between the sexes and the political orientations of the world's contemporary foragers.

Industrialisation and Trade Union Organization in South Africa, 1924-1955

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521263122
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Industrialisation and Trade Union Organization in South Africa, 1924-1955 written by Jon Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-11-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the TLC from its origins in the 1920s to its demise in the 1950s.

Tricksters and Trancers

Author : Mathias Guenther
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213440
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Tricksters and Trancers written by Mathias Guenther and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a first-rate piece of scholarship . . . an invaluable summary and commentary on the multilingual literature on [Bushman] people." —Choice The trickster and trance dancer are the guides through Bushman (or San) religion, a world of ambiguity and contradiction, and of enchantment. The two figures, who in Bushman belief are symbolically equivalent and mystically linked, embody these antistructural traits.

Slavery in Dutch South Africa

Author : Nigel Worden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521258758
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Slavery in Dutch South Africa written by Nigel Worden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-04-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1985 comprehensive study analyses slavery in early colonial South Africa under the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795). Based on archival research in Britain, the Netherlands and South Africa, it examines the nature of Cape slavery with reference to the literature on other slave societies.

The Cambridge History of Africa

Author : J. D. Fage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521224093
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Africa written by J. D. Fage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditions and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate.

Islam and Social Change in French West Africa

Author : Sean Hanretta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477285
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Islam and Social Change in French West Africa written by Sean Hanretta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social and economic change in the region. It highlights the role that intellectuals played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas and political contexts that gave their efforts meaning. In contrast to depictions that emphasize the importance of international networks and anti-modern reaction in twentieth-century Islamic reform, this book claims that, in West Africa, such movements were driven by local forces and constituted only the most recent round in a set of centuries-old debates about the best way for pious people to confront social injustice. It argues that traditional historical methods prevent an appreciation of Muslim intellectual history in Africa by misunderstanding the nature of information gathering during colonial rule and misconstruing the relationship between documents and oral history.

Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing

Author : Christopher Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351051245
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing written by Christopher Fleming and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing consists of five themes, namely, physical, social and emotional, economic, cultural and spiritual, and subjective wellbeing. It fills a substantial gap in the current literature on the wellbeing of Indigenous people and communities around the world. This handbook sheds new light on understanding Indigenous wellbeing and its determinants, and aids in the development and implementation of more appropriate policies, as better evidence-informed policymaking will lead to better outcomes for Indigenous populations. This book provides a reliable and convenient source of information for policymakers, academics and students, and allows readers to make informed decisions regarding the wellbeing of Indigenous populations. It is also a useful resource for non- government organizations to gain insight into relevant global factors for the development of stronger and more effective international policies to improve the lives of Indigenous communities.

The Anatomy of a South African Genocide

Author : Mohamed Adhikari
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 082144400X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of a South African Genocide written by Mohamed Adhikari and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the ‡Khomani San who today live in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, lamented, “We have been made into nothing.” His comment applies equally to the fate of all the hunter-gatherer societies of the Cape Colony who were destroyed by the impact of European colonialism. Until relatively recently, the extermination of the Cape San peoples has been treated as little more than a footnote to South African narratives of colonial conquest. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch-speaking pastoralists who infiltrated the Cape interior dispossessed its aboriginal inhabitants. In response to indigenous resistance, colonists formed mounted militia units known as commandos with the express purpose of destroying San bands. This ensured the virtual extinction of the Cape San peoples. In The Anatomy of a South African Genocide, Mohamed Adhikari examines the history of the San and persuasively presents the annihilation of Cape San society as genocide.

Kalahari

Author : Jessica Khoury
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698151046
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Kalahari written by Jessica Khoury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret… But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It’s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate. But soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything she’s ever known about the natural world. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, they uncover the chilling truth behind the lion’s silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area—and eliminate life as they know it. In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro, Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus, but its creators, who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.

Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa

Author : de Wet Chris de Wet
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474400442
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa written by de Wet Chris de Wet and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ways in which changing political and economic processes impact upon patterns of population movement and settlement. It focuses on the southern African region as it has moved from the experiments of the early independence era, through civil war and refugee flight, into the current era characterised by globalization and the demise of apartheid. Focused case studies from across the region deal with specific aspects of these transformations and their policy implications.

Africa, Asia, and South America Since 1800

Author : A. J. H. Latham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719018770
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Africa, Asia, and South America Since 1800 written by A. J. H. Latham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference for graduate and undergraduate students presenting the bibliographic details and sometimes describing and evaluating the content of over 5,000 books in English, most published since 1945 and many quite recently, but also some earlier works of enduring importance. A section of works on all three continents is followed by sections on each, which first consider the continent as a whole, then each country, usually by chronological periods and topics such as economics, politics, and society. Indexed only by author and editor, but the table of contents is detailed enough to provide adequate access. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.