The Erasure of Past Interests in Land at Philippolis

Edward Cavanagh
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Chapter 1 in Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa, 2013, pp 24-39 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The San and the Griqua have captured the imaginations of many in South Africa for a long time, if for very different reasons. Both labels are deeply problematic for they elide the complexities of ethnogenesis, the dynamics of inter-community politics, and the function of colonial discourse, as will probably become clearer throughout this book.1 Yet in the absence of any alternatives, ‘San’ and ‘Griqua’ are applied here as they are by others now and in the recent past: the former to the oldest cultural group in the African sub-continent, the latter reserved for those comprised of many strands, who experienced ethnogenesis much later and expanded across the Transorangia region as they did.

Keywords: White Settler; Settler Society; Colonial Discourse; Missionary Group; Genocide Study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137305770_2

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