Colonial survey and native landscapes in rural South Africa, 1850-1913 : the politics of divided space in the Cape and Transvaal / by Lindsay Frederick Braun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braun, Lindsay Frederick.

Series:

African social studies series ; 1568-1203 v. 33.

African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Land tenure--South Africa.

Black people.

Real property--South Africa.

Real property.

Land tenure--South Africa.

Land tenure.

Black people--Land tenure.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xiv, 410 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2015.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Construction of Colonial Terrritory 1

Part 1 Imagining Lands without Chiefs

2 Redefining Land and Location in the Eastern Cape 39

3 "Cut Into Little Bits": Engineering Social Order 83

4 Survey and Mediation in Fingoland 137

Part 2 Locating the Enduring Kingdom

5 The Notional Republic 193

6 "Before, the Entire Land Was Ramabulana" 239

7 The Fall and Rise of Mphephu 296

8 Objections and Objectives: SANAC, the Tsewu Case, and the Land Act 346.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004272330

900427233X

OCLC:

894847592