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Five Hundred Years Rediscovered
Southern African Precedents and Prospects
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Artikel-Nr:
9781868144747
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2008
Seiten:
296
Autor:
Natalie Swanepoel
Gewicht:
567 g
Format:
241x170x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Natalie Swanepoel is an archaeologist at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Amanda Esterhuysen is an archaeologist, and Philip Bonner a historian, both at the University of the Witwaters--rand, Johannesburg.
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/ apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered: Southern African Precedents and Prospects represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalie and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the regions expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africas colonial past.