Five Hundred Years Rediscovered - Southern African Precedents and Prospects

Informationen zum Autor Natalie Swanepoel is an archaeologist at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Amanda Esterhuysen is an archaeologist, and Philip Bonner a historian, both at the University of the Witwaters--rand, Johannesburg. Klappentext In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/ apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered: Southern African Precedents and Prospects represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalie and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the regions expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africas colonial past. Zusammenfassung Integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks! this book challenges thinking about the southern Africa's expanding internal and colonial frontiers! and extends perceptions about southern Africa's colonial past.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Anderson, Joanna Behrens, Phil Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen, Simon Hall, Neil Parsons, Natalie Swanepoel, Natalie Esterhuysen Swanepoel
• Mitarbeit: Phil Bonner (Herausgeber), Amanda Esterhuysen (Herausgeber), Natalie Swanepoel (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.08.2008
• EAN: 9781868144747
• ISBN: 978-1-86814-474-7
• Seiten: 296
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte