Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913

The Politics of Divided Space in the Cape and Transvaal
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27233-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objectivity and authority, even though the reality was far messier.

Using a wide range of archival and printed materials from survey departments, repositories, and libraries, the author presents two distinct episodes of struggle over lands and livelihoods, one from the Eastern Cape and one from the former northern Transvaal. These cases expose the contingencies, contests, and negotiations that fundamentally shaped these changing South African landscapes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braun, Lindsay F

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on Terminology and Usage
List of Illustrations and Maps
Abbreviations and Initialisms

1. Introduction: The Construction of Colonial Terrritory

PART I: Imagining Lands without Chiefs
2. Redefining Land and Location in the Eastern Cape
3. “Cut Into Little Bits”: Engineering Social Order
4. Survey and Mediation in Fingoland

PART II: Locating the Enduring Kingdom
5. The Notional Republic
6. “Before, the Entire Land Was Ramabulana”
7. The Fall and Rise of Mphephu

8. Objections and Objectives: SANAC, the Tsewu Case, and the Land Act
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lindsay Frederick Braun, Ph.D. (Rutgers, 2008), is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon. His work on colonial southern Africa has appeared in a number of publications, including the South African Historical Journal and the Journal of Southern African Studies.