J B Peires
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 222371 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J B Peires |
| NOMBRES | J B |
| APELLIDO | Peires |
| FIRMA | PEIRES J B |
| AFILIACIONES | Rhodes University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1895 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Pinning the Tail on the Donkey
Paradigm deleted
(1993). Paradigm deleted: the materialist interpretation of the Mfecane. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 295-313
The Implosion of Transkei and Ciskei
Journal Article THE IMPLOSION OF TRANSKEI AND CISKEI Get access J. B. PEIRES J. B. PEIRES J. B. Peires is Professor of History at the University of Transkei. He is the author of The Dead Will Arise. Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–7. (James Currey, London, 1989). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 364, July 1992, Pages 365–387, https://doi.org/1…
The Dead Will Arise
The Dead Will Arise
The story of Nongqawuse, a young girl whose prophecy in 1856 of the regeneration of the living and the resurrection of the dead caused 100,000 Xhosa to kill their cattle, destroy their crops and slowly starve to death, is one of the most extraordinary in history, and has defied explanation over 130 years. The author draws on private letters, spy reports, oral traditions and obscure Xhosa texts to explain the motivations behind both the prophesy a…
The Dead Will Arise
The Dead Will Arise
Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe
Research Article| May 01 1990 Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe J.B. Peires J.B. Peires Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 47–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J.B. Peires; Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe. Radical Histor…
The Dead Will Arise
The Dead Will Arise
"Anyone who thinks that South Africa's problems began with the Afrikaners and apartheid should read this book." -Richard Dowden, The Independent"... should remain the last word for the foreseeable future." -Choice"Peires is the premier historian of the Xhosa people. He speaks the language, knows the terrain, has collected oral traditions and has made an exhaustive study of the documented sources. The result is a fascinating and authoritative acco…
Mission Studies Bibliography
The Central Beliefs of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing
The Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–7 cannot be explained as a superstitious ‘pagan reaction’to the intrusion of colonial rule and Christian civilization. It owes its peculiar form to the lungsickness epidemic of 1854, which carried off over 100,000 Xhosa cattle. The Xhosa theory of disease indicated that the sick cattle had been contaminated by the witchcraft practices of the people, and that these tainted cattle would have to be slaughter…
Soft’ Believers and ‘Hard’ Unbelievers in the Xhosa Cattle-Killing
A substantial minority, perhaps 15 per cent of all Xhosa, refused to obey the prophetess Nongqawuse's orders to kill their cattle and destory their cornl. This divided Xhosaland into two parties, the amathamba (‘soft’ ones, or believers) and the amagogotya (‘hard’ ones, or unbelievers). The affiliation of individuals was partly determined by a number of factors – lungsickness in cattle, political attitude towards the Cape Colony, religious belief…
Books reviewed
J. B. Peires, The House of Phalo (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981 and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), pp. x+281; J. B. Peires (ed.), Before and After Shaka: Papers in Nguni History (Grahamstown: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, 1981), pp. vi+267. Charles van Onselen, Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886–1914: 1 New Babylon, 2 New Nineveh (Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Lond…
Sir George Grey versus the Kaffir relief committee
Before and after Shaka
The House of Phalo
In this, the first modern history of the Xhosa, the author relates the story of one of the most numerous and important indigenous peoples in contemporary South Africa, from their consolidation, through an era of co-operation and conflict with whites (whom the Xhosa regarded as uncivilized) to the frontier wars that eventuated in their present position as a subordinate group in the modern South African state. Incorporating their own oral and writt…
Nguni History Revised
Nxele, Ntsikana and the Origins of the Xhosa Religious Reaction
The sudden expulsion of the Xhosa across the Fish River in 1811–12 created a practical and conceptual crisis which the traditional political authorities were unable to resolve. Two commoners, Nxele and Ntsikana, emerged in this vacuum, each proposing his own solution to the problems posed by the white irruption. Although these responses were religious responses, they were neither irrational nor incomprehensible. Xhosa religion had long functioned…
The Lovedale Press
The fact is that the mass of the vernacular literature published in the past emanated, and still to-day emanates, from missionary presses, and naturally such literature has sought to fulfil the aims of missionary societies. The special features of written vernacular history as a specific category of African historical documentation still await a general theoretical analysis. This article makes no attempt to remedy the deficiency, but considers tw…
The emperor's new clothes
Ethnic Power Mobilised: Can South Africa Change? by H. Adam and H. Giliomee, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979 and distributed by David Philip, Cape Town
The Rise of the ‘Right-Hand House’ in the History and Historiography of the Xhosa
Among the Xhosa the institution of the ‘Right-Hand House’ acts both as a political charter and as an historical explanation. As a political charter it defines the relationship between the Ngqika Paramount (the Right-Hand House) of the Ciskei ‘Bantu Homeland’ and the Gcaleka Paramount (the Great House) of the Transkei Homeland. As it presently stands, the essence of this relationship is that the Ngqika Paramount recognizes the Gcaleka Paramount as…
The Late Great Plot
The very idea that the Xhosa chiefs and their allies engineered the great cattle-killing which finally broke their power seems so absurd that most people who hear of it dismiss it instinctively. And indeed, they are perfectly correct to do so. Yet the sheer mass of documentary evidence in support of the proposition is such that all historians who have come into contact with it have been forced to be more circumspect with regard to the “chiefs' pl…
The Lovedale Press
The fact is that the mass of the vernacular literature published in the past emanated, and still to-day emanates, from missionary presses, and naturally such literature has sought to fulfil the aims of missionary societies. The special features of written vernacular history as a specific category of African historical documentation still await a general theoretical analysis. This article makes no attempt to remedy the deficiency, but considers tw…
The Dead Will Arise
The Dead Will Arise
The Implosion of Transkei and Ciskei
Journal Article THE IMPLOSION OF TRANSKEI AND CISKEI Get access J. B. PEIRES J. B. PEIRES J. B. Peires is Professor of History at the University of Transkei. He is the author of The Dead Will Arise. Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–7. (James Currey, London, 1989). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 364, July 1992, Pages 365–387, https://doi.org/1…
Nxele, Ntsikana and the Origins of the Xhosa Religious Reaction
The sudden expulsion of the Xhosa across the Fish River in 1811–12 created a practical and conceptual crisis which the traditional political authorities were unable to resolve. Two commoners, Nxele and Ntsikana, emerged in this vacuum, each proposing his own solution to the problems posed by the white irruption. Although these responses were religious responses, they were neither irrational nor incomprehensible. Xhosa religion had long functioned…
The Central Beliefs of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing
The Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–7 cannot be explained as a superstitious ‘pagan reaction’to the intrusion of colonial rule and Christian civilization. It owes its peculiar form to the lungsickness epidemic of 1854, which carried off over 100,000 Xhosa cattle. The Xhosa theory of disease indicated that the sick cattle had been contaminated by the witchcraft practices of the people, and that these tainted cattle would have to be slaughter…
Paradigm deleted
(1993). Paradigm deleted: the materialist interpretation of the Mfecane. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 295-313
Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe
Research Article| May 01 1990 Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe J.B. Peires J.B. Peires Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 47–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J.B. Peires; Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe. Radical Histor…
Soft’ Believers and ‘Hard’ Unbelievers in the Xhosa Cattle-Killing
A substantial minority, perhaps 15 per cent of all Xhosa, refused to obey the prophetess Nongqawuse's orders to kill their cattle and destory their cornl. This divided Xhosaland into two parties, the amathamba (‘soft’ ones, or believers) and the amagogotya (‘hard’ ones, or unbelievers). The affiliation of individuals was partly determined by a number of factors – lungsickness in cattle, political attitude towards the Cape Colony, religious belief…
The Late Great Plot
The very idea that the Xhosa chiefs and their allies engineered the great cattle-killing which finally broke their power seems so absurd that most people who hear of it dismiss it instinctively. And indeed, they are perfectly correct to do so. Yet the sheer mass of documentary evidence in support of the proposition is such that all historians who have come into contact with it have been forced to be more circumspect with regard to the “chiefs' pl…
The Rise of the ‘Right-Hand House’ in the History and Historiography of the Xhosa
Among the Xhosa the institution of the ‘Right-Hand House’ acts both as a political charter and as an historical explanation. As a political charter it defines the relationship between the Ngqika Paramount (the Right-Hand House) of the Ciskei ‘Bantu Homeland’ and the Gcaleka Paramount (the Great House) of the Transkei Homeland. As it presently stands, the essence of this relationship is that the Ngqika Paramount recognizes the Gcaleka Paramount as…
The Late Great Plot
The very idea that the Xhosa chiefs and their allies engineered the great cattle-killing which finally broke their power seems so absurd that most people who hear of it dismiss it instinctively. And indeed, they are perfectly correct to do so. Yet the sheer mass of documentary evidence in support of the proposition is such that all historians who have come into contact with it have been forced to be more circumspect with regard to the “chiefs' pl…
The Rise of the ‘Right-Hand House’ in the History and Historiography of the Xhosa
Among the Xhosa the institution of the ‘Right-Hand House’ acts both as a political charter and as an historical explanation. As a political charter it defines the relationship between the Ngqika Paramount (the Right-Hand House) of the Ciskei ‘Bantu Homeland’ and the Gcaleka Paramount (the Great House) of the Transkei Homeland. As it presently stands, the essence of this relationship is that the Ngqika Paramount recognizes the Gcaleka Paramount as…
Nxele, Ntsikana and the Origins of the Xhosa Religious Reaction
The sudden expulsion of the Xhosa across the Fish River in 1811–12 created a practical and conceptual crisis which the traditional political authorities were unable to resolve. Two commoners, Nxele and Ntsikana, emerged in this vacuum, each proposing his own solution to the problems posed by the white irruption. Although these responses were religious responses, they were neither irrational nor incomprehensible. Xhosa religion had long functioned…
The Lovedale Press
The fact is that the mass of the vernacular literature published in the past emanated, and still to-day emanates, from missionary presses, and naturally such literature has sought to fulfil the aims of missionary societies. The special features of written vernacular history as a specific category of African historical documentation still await a general theoretical analysis. This article makes no attempt to remedy the deficiency, but considers tw…
The emperor's new clothes
Ethnic Power Mobilised: Can South Africa Change? by H. Adam and H. Giliomee, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979 and distributed by David Philip, Cape Town
Nguni History Revised
Books reviewed
J. B. Peires, The House of Phalo (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981 and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), pp. x+281; J. B. Peires (ed.), Before and After Shaka: Papers in Nguni History (Grahamstown: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, 1981), pp. vi+267. Charles van Onselen, Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886–1914: 1 New Babylon, 2 New Nineveh (Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Lond…
Sir George Grey versus the Kaffir relief committee
Before and after Shaka
The House of Phalo
In this, the first modern history of the Xhosa, the author relates the story of one of the most numerous and important indigenous peoples in contemporary South Africa, from their consolidation, through an era of co-operation and conflict with whites (whom the Xhosa regarded as uncivilized) to the frontier wars that eventuated in their present position as a subordinate group in the modern South African state. Incorporating their own oral and writt…
Soft’ Believers and ‘Hard’ Unbelievers in the Xhosa Cattle-Killing
A substantial minority, perhaps 15 per cent of all Xhosa, refused to obey the prophetess Nongqawuse's orders to kill their cattle and destory their cornl. This divided Xhosaland into two parties, the amathamba (‘soft’ ones, or believers) and the amagogotya (‘hard’ ones, or unbelievers). The affiliation of individuals was partly determined by a number of factors – lungsickness in cattle, political attitude towards the Cape Colony, religious belief…
The Central Beliefs of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing
The Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–7 cannot be explained as a superstitious ‘pagan reaction’to the intrusion of colonial rule and Christian civilization. It owes its peculiar form to the lungsickness epidemic of 1854, which carried off over 100,000 Xhosa cattle. The Xhosa theory of disease indicated that the sick cattle had been contaminated by the witchcraft practices of the people, and that these tainted cattle would have to be slaughter…
The Dead Will Arise
"Anyone who thinks that South Africa's problems began with the Afrikaners and apartheid should read this book." -Richard Dowden, The Independent"... should remain the last word for the foreseeable future." -Choice"Peires is the premier historian of the Xhosa people. He speaks the language, knows the terrain, has collected oral traditions and has made an exhaustive study of the documented sources. The result is a fascinating and authoritative acco…
Mission Studies Bibliography
The Dead Will Arise
Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe
Research Article| May 01 1990 Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe J.B. Peires J.B. Peires Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 47–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J.B. Peires; Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe. Radical Histor…
The Dead Will Arise
The Dead Will Arise
The story of Nongqawuse, a young girl whose prophecy in 1856 of the regeneration of the living and the resurrection of the dead caused 100,000 Xhosa to kill their cattle, destroy their crops and slowly starve to death, is one of the most extraordinary in history, and has defied explanation over 130 years. The author draws on private letters, spy reports, oral traditions and obscure Xhosa texts to explain the motivations behind both the prophesy a…
The Dead Will Arise
The Implosion of Transkei and Ciskei
Journal Article THE IMPLOSION OF TRANSKEI AND CISKEI Get access J. B. PEIRES J. B. PEIRES J. B. Peires is Professor of History at the University of Transkei. He is the author of The Dead Will Arise. Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–7. (James Currey, London, 1989). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 364, July 1992, Pages 365–387, https://doi.org/1…
The Dead Will Arise
Pinning the Tail on the Donkey
Paradigm deleted
(1993). Paradigm deleted: the materialist interpretation of the Mfecane. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 295-313
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