The anatomy of a South African genocide : the extermination of the Cape San peoples / Mohamed Adhikari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adhikari, Mohamed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--History.

Genocide.

San (African people)--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--History.

San (African people).

San (African people)--Violence against--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 pages) : map

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the! homani 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

Contents:

Chronology

Definitions of genocide

Introduction: Settler colonialism and San society

Colonial expansion through the eighteenth century

The dynamic of conflict on the frontier under Dutch rule

Attrition under British colonial rule

A case of genocide?

Conclusion: Xaa-ttin's lament.

Notes:

"First published 2010 by UCT Press, an imprint of Juta and Company Ltd. ... South Africa."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-112) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780821444009

082144400X

OCLC:

759922712

Publisher Number:

40019923968