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

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 Europe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adhikari, Mohamed
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Genocide > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History.
San (African people) > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History.
San (African people) > Violence against > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History.
San (Peuple d'Afrique) > Afrique du Sud > Le Cap (Province) > Histoire.
San (Peuple d'Afrique) > Violence envers > Afrique du Sud > Le Cap (Province) > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
HISTORY > General.
Genocide
San (African people)
South Africa > Cape of Good Hope
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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