Bokoni

Old Structures, New Paradigms? Rethinking Pre-colonial Society from the Perspective of the Stone-Walled Sites in Mpumalanga

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4604264
AutoresPeter Delius (University of the Witwatersrand), Linell Chewins (0000-0002-1693-5084), Tim Maggs (University of Cape Town), Maria Schoeman, Maria H Schoeman (0000-0002-3680-4276, University of the Witwatersrand)
Año2012
Volumen38
Número2
Páginas399-414
Fecha de publicación2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057070.2012.682841
OpenAlexW2079542161
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15

This article demonstrates that the interdisciplinary research that has been conducted on Bokoni under the auspices of the 500 Year Initiative has had significant outcomes. We have created a more periodised account of the development of the settlements. Narrow and ethnically determined conceptions of identity have been subjected to critique and the notion that specific pottery forms are necessarily markers of specific cultures or linguistic units has been challenged. Conventional accounts of the nature of Iron Age agriculture have been substantially qualified. At the same time, a host of new questions have been developed around the appropriate unit of study for these communities and the economic and political dynamics that shaped their rise and decline

Aesthetics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Economics · Geography · Human settlement · Political science · Politics · Pottery · Social science · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Psychology