Robert Shell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1744196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Shell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Shell |
| SIGNATURE | SHELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Landscape of Conquest: Frontier Water Alienation and Khoikhoi Strategies of Survival, 1652–1780
The Khoikhoi and San (Khoisan) were the first pre-colonial peoples of southern Africa to experience the impact of European-directed settlement and territorial expansion. In the mid seventeenth century, when the Dutch founded a fort and garden at the Cape, Khoisan pastoralists and hunter-gatherers were in sole possession of vast stretches of south-western Africa. The area of south-western Africa that the Khoisan had inhabited for centuries before …
The Tower of Babel: The Slave Trade and Creolization at the Cape, 1652–1834
In modem South Africa, the emphasis on ethnicity and race disguises the feet that most of today's descendants of the premodern, immigrant South African population do not know from whence they came. If anything, ignorance of geographical roots has been a primary incentive to classify, legally and socially, ali persons in South Africa according to origin and to construct a plethora of odd and exotic identities. Until 1792 the basic vectors of the C…
The family and slavery at the Cape, 1680–1808
The Cape slave-owners, by incorporating slaves into their family government, were not inventing something new: they were invoking an ancient institution - the Roman patriarchal family. The Cape equivalent came to have much in common with the Roman familia, which, as Friedrich Engels had pointed out, originally referred to all the slaves belonging to the head of the household: The original meaning of the word 'family' is not that compound of senti…
Historical relevance: Ten sketches of women illegally enslaved at the Cape, 1823 to 1830
Die artikel handel oor die verhale van slawevroue wat deel was van die slawehandelsproses teen die einde van die 18e eeu. Hulle is na die Kaap de Goede Hoop gebring as vry slawe of - soos hul eienaars gemeen het - as “geskenke”. Hierdie mini biografieë vertel die verhale van vroue wie se lot was dié van vervreemding van hul geboorteland, en slawerny in ‘n nuwe vreemde land. Slawevroue het protesteer en hul situasie by die owerhede aangemeld om so…
Breeders or Workers? The Structure of Slave Prices in the Cape Colony, 1823–1830
Madresahs and Moravians. Muslim educational institutions in the Cape Colony, 1792 to 1910
The vigorous revival of Christian missionary activity after 1792 with the return of the Moravians and the arrival of the London Missionary Society had little effect on Cape Town Muslims. By 1793 the Dorp Street school (madrasah) was established. By then, many of the males slaves and the free black population in Cape Town were securely Muslim. The success of the Cape Town Muslim clerisy owed much to the schools the imams established in all the col…
Immigration: T he F orgotten F actor in C ape C olonial F rontier E xpansion , 1658 to 1817
The paper argues that the immigration of single European males to the Cape throughout the Dutch period has been overlooked in the debate about the expansion of the frontier. The presence of these immigrants affected the demography of the settlement and accounts for the consistently high free male sex ratio at the Cape. The paper challenges the mythology of large self-perpetuating pre-1707 settler families using up available land and pushing the f…
Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838
Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in Modern Society
Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838
The Dutch East India Company's introduction of slaves into the Cape of Good Hope in 1653 established an institution, the social and political reverberations of which are still felt today. This is the story of the social, cultural and biological progeny of that first slave society
From Rites to Rebellion: Islamic Conversion, Urbanization, and Ethnic Identities At The Cape of Good Hope, 1797 to 1904
This essay deals with religious conversion and ethnic identities in nineteenth-century South Africa. It takes issue with Robin Horton's theory of monolatric conversion, that is, that conversion to a monotheistic religion is a process of modernization and rationality. The author argues that the underlying reasons for conversion require a different axis of explanation since the phenomenon was not primarily intellectual and, moreover, changed in typ…
Landscape of conquest: Frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652-1780
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries European settlers ousted the Khoikhoi and San from much of the land they inhabited in south‐western Africa using a strategic combination of technology and bureaucracy. The settlers possessed a powerful new fighting technology in the form of firearms and horses that enabled them to hold and defend lands taken from the Khoikhoi. The Dutch East India Company legitimised settler occupation of Khoikhoi land …
A Family Matter: The Sale and Transfer of Human Beings at the Cape, 1658 to 1830
An early colonial landed gentry: Land and wealth in the Cape Colony 1682–1731
Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838
The Dutch East India Company's introduction of slaves into the Cape of Good Hope in 1653 established an institution, the social and political reverberations of which are still felt today. This is the story of the social, cultural and biological progeny of that first slave society
Landscape of conquest: Frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652-1780
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries European settlers ousted the Khoikhoi and San from much of the land they inhabited in south‐western Africa using a strategic combination of technology and bureaucracy. The settlers possessed a powerful new fighting technology in the form of firearms and horses that enabled them to hold and defend lands taken from the Khoikhoi. The Dutch East India Company legitimised settler occupation of Khoikhoi land …
An early colonial landed gentry: Land and wealth in the Cape Colony 1682–1731
Immigration: T he F orgotten F actor in C ape C olonial F rontier E xpansion , 1658 to 1817
The paper argues that the immigration of single European males to the Cape throughout the Dutch period has been overlooked in the debate about the expansion of the frontier. The presence of these immigrants affected the demography of the settlement and accounts for the consistently high free male sex ratio at the Cape. The paper challenges the mythology of large self-perpetuating pre-1707 settler families using up available land and pushing the f…
From Rites to Rebellion: Islamic Conversion, Urbanization, and Ethnic Identities At The Cape of Good Hope, 1797 to 1904
This essay deals with religious conversion and ethnic identities in nineteenth-century South Africa. It takes issue with Robin Horton's theory of monolatric conversion, that is, that conversion to a monotheistic religion is a process of modernization and rationality. The author argues that the underlying reasons for conversion require a different axis of explanation since the phenomenon was not primarily intellectual and, moreover, changed in typ…
Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838
A Family Matter: The Sale and Transfer of Human Beings at the Cape, 1658 to 1830
An early colonial landed gentry: Land and wealth in the Cape Colony 1682–1731
Landscape of conquest: Frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652-1780
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries European settlers ousted the Khoikhoi and San from much of the land they inhabited in south‐western Africa using a strategic combination of technology and bureaucracy. The settlers possessed a powerful new fighting technology in the form of firearms and horses that enabled them to hold and defend lands taken from the Khoikhoi. The Dutch East India Company legitimised settler occupation of Khoikhoi land …
A Family Matter: The Sale and Transfer of Human Beings at the Cape, 1658 to 1830
From Rites to Rebellion: Islamic Conversion, Urbanization, and Ethnic Identities At The Cape of Good Hope, 1797 to 1904
This essay deals with religious conversion and ethnic identities in nineteenth-century South Africa. It takes issue with Robin Horton's theory of monolatric conversion, that is, that conversion to a monotheistic religion is a process of modernization and rationality. The author argues that the underlying reasons for conversion require a different axis of explanation since the phenomenon was not primarily intellectual and, moreover, changed in typ…
Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in Modern Society
Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838
The Dutch East India Company's introduction of slaves into the Cape of Good Hope in 1653 established an institution, the social and political reverberations of which are still felt today. This is the story of the social, cultural and biological progeny of that first slave society
Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838
Immigration: T he F orgotten F actor in C ape C olonial F rontier E xpansion , 1658 to 1817
The paper argues that the immigration of single European males to the Cape throughout the Dutch period has been overlooked in the debate about the expansion of the frontier. The presence of these immigrants affected the demography of the settlement and accounts for the consistently high free male sex ratio at the Cape. The paper challenges the mythology of large self-perpetuating pre-1707 settler families using up available land and pushing the f…
Madresahs and Moravians. Muslim educational institutions in the Cape Colony, 1792 to 1910
The vigorous revival of Christian missionary activity after 1792 with the return of the Moravians and the arrival of the London Missionary Society had little effect on Cape Town Muslims. By 1793 the Dorp Street school (madrasah) was established. By then, many of the males slaves and the free black population in Cape Town were securely Muslim. The success of the Cape Town Muslim clerisy owed much to the schools the imams established in all the col…
Breeders or Workers? The Structure of Slave Prices in the Cape Colony, 1823–1830
Historical relevance: Ten sketches of women illegally enslaved at the Cape, 1823 to 1830
Die artikel handel oor die verhale van slawevroue wat deel was van die slawehandelsproses teen die einde van die 18e eeu. Hulle is na die Kaap de Goede Hoop gebring as vry slawe of - soos hul eienaars gemeen het - as “geskenke”. Hierdie mini biografieë vertel die verhale van vroue wie se lot was dié van vervreemding van hul geboorteland, en slawerny in ‘n nuwe vreemde land. Slawevroue het protesteer en hul situasie by die owerhede aangemeld om so…
The family and slavery at the Cape, 1680–1808
The Cape slave-owners, by incorporating slaves into their family government, were not inventing something new: they were invoking an ancient institution - the Roman patriarchal family. The Cape equivalent came to have much in common with the Roman familia, which, as Friedrich Engels had pointed out, originally referred to all the slaves belonging to the head of the household: The original meaning of the word 'family' is not that compound of senti…
The Tower of Babel: The Slave Trade and Creolization at the Cape, 1652–1834
In modem South Africa, the emphasis on ethnicity and race disguises the feet that most of today's descendants of the premodern, immigrant South African population do not know from whence they came. If anything, ignorance of geographical roots has been a primary incentive to classify, legally and socially, ali persons in South Africa according to origin and to construct a plethora of odd and exotic identities. Until 1792 the basic vectors of the C…
Landscape of Conquest: Frontier Water Alienation and Khoikhoi Strategies of Survival, 1652–1780
The Khoikhoi and San (Khoisan) were the first pre-colonial peoples of southern Africa to experience the impact of European-directed settlement and territorial expansion. In the mid seventeenth century, when the Dutch founded a fort and garden at the Cape, Khoisan pastoralists and hunter-gatherers were in sole possession of vast stretches of south-western Africa. The area of south-western Africa that the Khoisan had inhabited for centuries before …
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