Khoisan Consciousness

An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51660-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 706 g

Reihe: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series

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 revivalists’ are rejecting their coloured identity and engaging in activism as indigenous people. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Town, this book takes an unprecedented bottom-up approach. Centring emic perspectives, it scrutinizes Khoisan revivalism’s origins and explores the diverse ways Khoisan revivalists engage with the past to articulate a sense of indigeneity and stake political claims.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verbuyst, Rafael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Über Autor(innen)

Rafael Verbuyst has a PhD in Anthropology from University of the Western Cape (2021) and a PhD in History from Ghent University (2021), where he is currently a postdoctoral fellow. He previously published in Anthropology Southern Africa and Social Dynamics.