10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KHOIKHOI»
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Khoikhoi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Khoikhoi and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Cape Herders: A History of the
Khoikhoi of Southern Africa
The story it tells instead is one of enduring interest - the history of a herding people in Southern Africa, its society, economy and culture, its relationship to the indigenous hunters of the Cape, its encounters with European expeditions, ...
2
Jan Paerl, a
Khoikhoi in Cape Colonial Society, 1761-1851
In this biography of the Khoikhoi Jan Paerl (1761-1851) light is being shed on a new form of resistance against colonial domination in Cape society.
Russel Stafford Viljoen,
2006
3
Culture and Customs of South Africa
To increase the deadly efficiency of their rudimentary weaponry, they smeared
their arrow tips with poisons extracted from snake venoms, insects, and plants.
Khoikhoi and the Advent of Pastoralism The last few centuries before the
Common ...
4
South Africa's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook
The most recent scholarship suggests that the Khoikhoi of the Cape called
themselves “the real people”to distinguish themselves from others.In modern
Nama orthography, the spelling of the term “Khoikhoi”would be “Khoekhoe.
Sally Frankental, Owen Sichone,
2005
5
The History of South Africa: Second Edition
however, relations between Khoikhoi pastoralists and the Dutch worsened. Now
there was a permanent European presence. Company servants and
freeburghers seized the most fertile land and grazed their livestock on the best
pasture.
6
Hunter and Habitat in the Central Kalahari Desert
Their similarity is restricted to the use of clicks among their stock of consonants,
which, because it is a feature unique to the speech of the hunter-gatherers and
the Khoikhoi (the clicks in some Bantu languages - Nguni, Sotho, and some ...
George B. Silberbauer,
1981
7
The Garland Handbook of African Music
Their languages, which exploit several clicking sounds, have heen classified as
either click languages or Khoisan languages. The latrer term comes ftom the
names these people use for themselves: Khoi or Khoikhoi fot the Hotrentots, and
San ...
8
The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies
owing to personal Dutch/Khoikhoi vendettas was relatively rare during the VOC
period. But physical injury almost pales into insignificance when we consider the
more subtle social, ideological and symbolic injury inflicted on Khoikhoi ...
document the deep inroads the colonists made into the Khoikhoi's indigenous
stock base, which was one of the primary causes of the breakdown of their
society. The beads found in the excavations encode the inequitable nature of a
trade in ...
10
Apartheid, Poverty and Malnutrition
The peoples and their economy At the time when colonial penetration started, the
southern sub-continent was inhabited by various peoples belonging to one of the
following three large groups: the Khoisan (Khoikhoi and San) in the western ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KHOIKHOI»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Khoikhoi is used in the context of the following news items.
I was not liberated by Mandela - Sunday Independent - IOL
These wars were waged due to colonial expansion into the Eastern Cape, which in turn dispossessed Xhosa and Khoikhoi people of their land ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
Nana Ama's Views: Christianity is un-African, homosexuality isn't
They were found among the Asantes and Nzemas in Ghana, the Bagandas in Uganda, the Zandas in Sudan, and the Khoikhoi's in South Africa ... «Pulse.com.gh, Jul 15»
Danish theme park in racist row
The “Hottentot Carousel” - which uses a derogatory name for the Khoikhoi ethnic group - rotates around an outsized black man with thick lips, ... «Independent Online, Jun 15»
Cuba Diary: Casa de las Americas, Afrocubanismo and Cultural …
... Show for S,” a startling and moving tribute to Sara Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as an attraction in 19th-century Europe. «Saint Croix Source, Jun 15»
We deserve histories that have not been sanitised
Together the Bushmen and Khoikhoi lost out on land and resources when the Bantu-speaking peoples also moved south in a series of ... «Mail & Guardian Online, May 15»
Simon Pooley: Fires in the Cape are Nature, Not Natural Disasters
The changes to the natural fire regime of the Peninsula first changed significantly when Khoikhoi herders began to visit seasonally to graze ... «Books LIVE, May 15»
Three hundred years of low non-paternity in a human population
It is also the case that owing to the low number of females at the Cape in the early days, some men lived together with former slaves or Khoikhoi ... «Nature.com, May 15»
The 'New South Africa' needs an upgrade
They should explain that the Afrikaners' diverse forbears (Dutch, French and German with some slaves and Khoikhoi) never served a foreign ... «News24, Apr 15»
Colonial history is part of our heritage as Africans, let us keep it
... known individually as the Bushmen and Hottentots or Khoikhoi; collectively called the Khoisan); to colonialism and the post colonial periods. «New Vision, Apr 15»
The Fall of Cecil John Rhodes and the Rise of Black Power
However, the Glen Grey Act also saw gallant resistance from various freedom fighters from the Khoikhoi, San, amaXhosa and amaZulu. «AllAfrica.com, Apr 15»