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Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Selected Articles from the Cape Monthly Magazine (New Series 1870-76)
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Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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'An Entirely Different World': Russian Visitors to the Cape 1797-1870
Author: Boris GorelikPublisher: Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents
ISBN: 0981426468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The Russian view of the Cape as represented in this volume may be unique. During the period in question, Russia had no cultural, political or economic ties with South Africa. Russians saw the Cape only as a convenient stopover en route to the Far East, to their country’s distant domains that could not be reached by sea otherwise. The Cape was one of the ‘exotic’ lands they would visit on such journeys, their first and only introduction to the African continent. Although amazed and perplexed by the ‘entirely different world’ they found here, Russian travellers would often draw unexpected parallels between life in their motherland and the realities of the Cape Colony. The selections include memoirs of such important Russian personalities as Yuri Lisyansky, Vasily Golovnin, Ivan Goncharov and Konstantin Posyet. Most of the texts appear in English for the first time.
The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard, 1799-1800
Author: Lady Anne Lindsay BarnardPublisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN: 9780958411264
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Garrett Papers
Author: Fydell Edmund GarrettPublisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN: 9780620082112
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Tricksters and Trancers
Author: Mathias GuentherPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253213440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
" . . . a first-rate piece of scholarship . . . an invaluable summary and commentary on the multilingual literature on [Bushman] people." —Choice The trickster and trance dancer are the guides through Bushman (or San) religion, a world of ambiguity and contradiction, and of enchantment. The two figures, who in Bushman belief are symbolically equivalent and mystically linked, embody these antistructural traits.
Griqua Records
Author: Karel SchoemanPublisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN: 9780958411219
Category : Campbell, South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Selections from the Correspondence of Percy Alport Molteno, 1892-1914
Author: Percy Alport MoltenoPublisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN: 9780620056625
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Johannesburg Pioneer Journals, 1888-1909
Author: Maryna FraserPublisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN: 9780620094320
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
THE FRONTIER WAR HOURNAL OF MAJOR JOHN CREALOCK 1878 A Narrative of the Ninth Frontier War by the Assistant Military secretary to Lieutenant General Thesiger
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers
Author: Susan KentPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521482370
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This book examines variability within broadly defined African forager societies. Foragers have been seen as culturally similar as they all pursue a subsistence strategy emphasising hunting and gathering. However, new research suggests there may be more diversity among groups than has been acknowledged. Here, leading scholars contrast groups with in forager societies. Chapters range in scope from symbolic to ecological and behavioural, providing invaluable data on hunter-gatherer life for anyone concerned with past or present foragers.