102 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
South Africa
Western Cape
Western Cape (South Africa)
Date:
2003
Notes:
AFA copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment.
Contents:
1. Africa's earliest people: the evolution of modern humans -- The Earlier Stone Age: the first toolmakers -- The Middle Stone Age: the emergence of modern humans -- The Later Stone Age: an age of more precise innovation -- What is the Stone Age? -- Klasies River Main Site -- Blombos Cave -- Middens: relics of ancient times -- Matjes River Rock shelter -- 2. The San: Stone Age people of the Cape -- A close bond with the land -- Conflict with the colonists -- Genocide becomes an option -- The British arrive at the Cape -- A change of heart in the north-east -- The north-western frontier remains recalcitrant -- The Cape San are no more -- A note on nomenclature: what's in a name? -- Trekboer architecture -- San rock art in the Western Cape -- 3. The move southwards -- A pastoral way of life -- A meeting of two different worlds -- The Dutch establish a base at the Cape -- Conflict erupts -- Status of the Khoenkhoen -- An ambivalent relationship -- The English occupy the Cape -- Boomplaas cave -- A home rooted in tradition -- Autshumato and the Strandlopers -- Mission stations: places of refuge for the landless -- 4. The Khoe-San: division and democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Representative government -- The looming crisis -- A precarious honeymoon and painful divorce -- The advent of democracy -- A note an nomeclature: Who are the coloured people? -- Abdullah Abdurahman and the African Political Organisation -- 5. The Khoe-San: dignity self-worth and aspirations -- Early science and racial superiority -- Rebuilding the past -- Promoting Khoe-San interests -- An international perspective -- Unity in diversity -- The return of Sarah Bartmann -- The Griqua Ratelgat Development Trust Project -- Can the Griqua claim first people status? --!Khwa ttu San Culture and Education Centre -- A brief history of the Griqua
