Khoisan Consciousness : : An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town / / Rafael Verbuyst.

The Khoisan of the Cape are widely considered virtually extinct as a distinct collective following their decimation, dispossession and assimilation into the mixed-race group ‘coloured’ during colonialism and apartheid. However, since the democratic transition of 1994, increasing numbers of ‘Khoisan...

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Superior document:Afrika-Studiecentrum Series ; 42
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum Series ; 42.
Physical Description:1 online resource (418 pages)
Notes:Based on unprecedented ethnographic fieldwork among ‘Khoisan revivalists’ in Cape Town, this book explores how and why the past is engaged with to revive an indigenous culture and identity that are widely believed to have vanished during colonialism and apartheid.
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