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Author Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962-

Title Popular politics in the history of South Africa, 1400-1948 / Paul S. Landau.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index.
Summary "Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 offers a newly inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the politics of the country's people, from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands, through the colonial era, to the dawn of Apartheid. A practical tradition of mobilization, alliance, and amalgamation persisted, mutated, and occasionally vanished from view; it survived against the odds in several forms, in tribalisms, Christian assemblies, and other, seemingly hybrid movements; and it continues today. Landau treats southern Africa broadly, concentrating increasingly on the southern highveld and ultimately focusing on a transnational movement called the "Samuelites." He shows how people's politics in South Africa were suppressed and transformed, but never entirely eliminated"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface: The Birth of the Political -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Eyewitness Engagements (Highveld political discourse at the start of the 1800s) -- Borderlands -- Wikar and Gordon and the 8220;Twin Courts8221; -- Journey to Dithakong: Missionaries, M233;tis, and Bechuana North of the Orange (8220;Great8221;) River -- Ancestors as Chiefs -- The Wesleyan Encounter with the Highveld, 18228211;24 -- Fathers and Brothers -- Sefunelo and His Court -- Debates about the Mfecane or Highveld Difaqane -- Gender and Warfare in 18228211;4 -- 2 History before Tribes (Partnership, alliance, and power) -- The Central Cattle Plan (CP) and Zimbabwe Plan (ZP) -- The S-Group Bantu-Speakers -- The Rozvi and South Africa -- The Evidence of Oral Tradition: The Twin (Teb 8211;) Courts via Ellenberger and Breutz -- History as a Network of Options -- Lion -- Crocodile -- 3 Translations (Missionaries and the invention of Christianity) -- Robert Moffat (at Large) -- Rain, Tobacco, Chiefs -- A Comparative Look at the Grasslands of the East -- Creating Gods Kingdom, Part 1: Initial Translations -- Prayer in Two Versions -- Creating Gods Kingdom, Part 2:160;Chuin, 1827 -- The Conundrum of Jesus Crucified and Returning -- Creating Gods Kingdom, Part 3:160;Beyond Ha-rotse -- Metaphors -- In Sum:160;Translation as Transformation -- 4 The Incipient Order (Morokas reign, 18288211;1880) -- The Valley of the Middle River -- M233;tis, Christian, Chief:160;Interpenetrations and Formations of Power in the 1830s -- Boers -- Christianity and Ethnicity, Part I -- Coloureds -- Barolong and Basuto and 8230; -- The Midcentury War(s) against the Colony -- Industry, War, and the Loss of the Middle Valley -- Christianity and Ethnicity, Part II: the End of Chiefly Power -- Coloured(s) Revisited -- Photography and Tribal Types -- Christianity and Ethnicity, Part III: Anglicanism, Seleka Court Politics, and Samuel Moroka -- Chiefship and Tribal Biology on Trial -- 5 Mixed People (The Samuelites, the Griqua, and other subjectivities, 18808211;1928) -- Amenable 8230; to Be Killed -- Discourses of Victory -- The Wider Frame:160;18808211;1900 -- Killed the Matabele God -- The Samuelites at the Ends of the Earth: the Tati District -- Toward Union (1910) -- Tribes qua Tribes -- The Samuelites Search for Land -- The Youngmen of the 1920s -- A.A.S. Le Fleur and the Griqua Movement -- The Wider Frame, 1910s8211;1920s -- Late Segregation and the Samuelites -- The Almost-Seen and the Almost-Heard -- 6 Twentieth-Century Tribes -- Models of Self-Representation: The Tati Samuelites and the Matsheka Thaba Nchu Samuelites -- Anthropology: Real Mobilizations, Isaac Schapera, and 8220;the Tswana8221; -- Whisper -- In the Greatness We Were People of 8230; -- About the Land:160;Is That a Political Matter, or 8230;? -- Postscript:160;The Prophet Mokaleng -- What Is Argued in This Book -- Primary and Archival Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Subject Political participation -- South Africa -- History.
Political participation.
South Africa.
History.
Politics, Practical -- South Africa -- History.
Politics, Practical.
South Africa -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962- Popular politics in the history of South Africa, 1400-1948. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521196031 (DLC) 2010012788 (OCoLC)607573897
ISBN 9780511750243 (electronic book)
0511750242 (electronic book)
9780521196031 (hardback)
0521196035 (hardback)
9780521179263 (African edition paperback)
0521179262 (African edition paperback)
Standard No. 9786612723353