Khoikhoi, microhistory, and colonial characters at the Cape of Good Hope / Russel Viljoen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viljoen, Russel Stafford, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--History--To 1795.

Cape of Good Hope (South Africa).

Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--History--1795-1872.

Netherlands--Colonies--Administration.

Netherlands.

Khoikhoi (African people)--Social life and customs--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope.

Khoikhoi (African people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023]

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-66690-059-1