Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters At the Cape of Good - Hop

Informationen zum Autor By Russel Viljoen Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction: Microhistory and Reclaiming Histories of the Modest Chapter 1. Love, Lust and Loathe: The Story of "Lost Love": Griet and Hendrik Eksteen, c.1739-1759 Chapter 2. Master, Malcontent, and Murderer: Khoikhoi Andries and Johannes Adriaan de Necker in Dutch-South Africa, c.1764-1766 Chapter 3. Jan Paerl c.1788-1851: Restitutionist, Religious Prophet, and Respectable Convert Chapter 4. "Soil Once His Own": The Colonial and Christian World of Lebrecht Hans Ari: A Khoikhoi and Moravian Convert at the Cape, c.1774-1864 Chapter 5. "Sketching the Khoikhoi": George French Angas and His Depiction of Genadendal Khoikhoi Characters at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1847

Product details

• Authors: Russel Viljoen, Viljoen Russel
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2022
• EAN: 9781666900583
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-058-3
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people