Afrikaners of the Kalahari ：White Minority in a Black State ( African Studies )

Publication subTitle ：White Minority in a Black State

Publication series ：African Studies

Author： Margo Russell; Martin Russell  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9781139241625

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521101400

Subject： K1 World History

Keyword： 世界史

Language： ENG

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Afrikaners of the Kalahari

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The popular image of the Kalahari is a romantic one of desert space and untouched Bushmen. The popular image of the Afrikaners is of a unique and vicious racialism. Yet Afrikaners have been living in the Kalahari for more than a hundred years, their presence often studiously ignored by writers; and since 1961 independent Botswana with its policy of scrupulous non-racialism has embraced both Afrikaner and Bushman in common citizenship. This book attempts to describe the complex and mundane reality of ethnic relations in the Kalahari, not only in the present, harried by relentless pressure to enter the cash economy of modernisation, but in the past. Using oral history as a source, the authors describe the 'Africanisation' of these poor white pastoralists of the interior, cut off by the thirstland from those influences which gave contemporary Afrikanerdom its particular cast. They describe the pragmatic relations developed by Afrikaners with other peoples of the interior, and how these have been perceived and redefined with the decisive shift in political power from British to Tswana hands.

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Acknowledgements

A note on terminology

1 The mundane Kalahari: an introduction

2 Boers, trekboers and bywoners: 1898-1930

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3 Into the cash economy: 1930-72

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4 Ghanzi Afrikaners 1973: a domestic description

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5 Preserving boundaries: similarities, ambiguities and avoidances

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6 Boers and Bushmen: dependence, interdependence and Independence

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7 Sharing religion: attitudes to the conversion of the Bushmen to Christianity

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8 Boers, bureaucrats and blacks

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9 Prospect: whites in a black state

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Bibliography

1. Sources, by author

2. Additional sources in chronological order

3. Newspapers

Index

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