Silencing the past
Historical and archaeological colonisation of the Southern San in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2186649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Francis (0000-0001-9622-9202, Athabasca University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 106-116 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23323256.2009.11499985 |
| OpenAlex | W1935696320 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 19 |
The San of the Drakensberg are assumed to be extinct. Yet, there are Zulu-speaking people in the Drakensberg who still identify as San. These people and their claims both challenge the preconceived notions of what it means to be San in southern Africa and show the situational nature of ethnicity. The claims revolve around mutual ties and family genealogies that do not necessarily constitute a salient or ‘complete’ identity, but a process intimately tied with the history of the region and all its complexity, violence and changes. I show how people claim different ethnicities at different times, past and present, in order to respond to changing social and political conditions. By highlighting the situational nature of ethnicity, I fracture singular notions of ethnicity as seen in the image of the San as essentially Kalahari hunter-gatherers
Archaeology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music · Political science · Salient · Situational ethics · Sociology · Zulu · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · South African History and Culture
Contributions of a Heritage Values-based Approach to Rock Art Management. Lessons from the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site, South Africa
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project
The ‘bullets to water’ belief complex
The Decolonial Turn in Khoisan Studies
Representation and misrepresentation
Partager des images, repenser le patrimoine rupestre
To what degree does a Unesco World Heritage Site listing improve the conservation of heritage sites? Insights from the case of the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site (South Africa-Lesotho)
Towards a holistic approach to heritage values
Enjeux patrimoniaux et identitaires autour des sites d'art rupestre sud-africains
Contested images
Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the "Other"
Reaction to conquest
Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
Burial and Sequence in the Later Stone Age of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
The Mfecane as Alibi
Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]
The Sadness of Sweetness
Bushman Raiders of the Drakensberg, 1840-1870
Conflict in Qumbu
Changing fortunes
Social Identity and Culture Change on the Southern Northwest Coast
Things from the Bush
Stimulus Diffusion
Another Look at Ethnicity as a Biological Concept
Goodby to Tristes Tropes
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |