| The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples Contributor(s): Adhikari, Mohamed (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821419870 ISBN-13: 9780821419878 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $17.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - Social Science | Demography - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 304.6 |
| LCCN: 2011027223 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.35 lbs) 120 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An allAfrica.com 2011 New & Notable Book In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the +Khomani 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 European colonialism. Until relatively recently, the extermination of the Cape San peoples has been treated as little more than a footnote to South African narratives of colonial conquest. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch-speaking pastoralists who infiltrated the Cape interior dispossessed its aboriginal inhabitants. In response to indigenous resistance, colonists formed mounted militia units known as commandos with the express purpose of destroying San bands. This ensured the virtual extinction of the Cape San peoples. In The Anatomy of a South African Genocide, Mohamed Adhikari examines the history of the San and persuasively presents the annihilation of Cape San society as genocide. |