Joseph Orpen's 1874 Cape Monthly Magazine article relating the testimony of Qing, a San man in the Maloti Mountains, is a bedrock text of southern San cosmology. For the last few decades, this article has been the subject of intense scrutiny by rock art researchers and archaeologists studying hunter-gatherer societies. Recently, scholars have questioned whether Orp...
This article offers an archaeological perspective on the Wittebergen Native Reserve, not through excavated remains, but by exploring how historical perceptions of a landscape related to experiences of authority, tenure, mobility and security. It examines how (mis-)perceptions of land (its productivity and availability) helped missionaries to formulate settlement pr...
Le raid de bétail est emblématique de la frontière coloniale dans l'histoire et l'historiographie du Sud de l'Afrique. Incorporant les colons et les Africains à la fois comme agresseurs et comme victimes, les archives et les récits ethnohistoriques décrivent le raid de bétail comme un vol, une subversion de l'autorité et une incitation au conflit. Malgré l'attentio...
En 2008, le projet Metolong Cultural Resource Management (MCRM) lança un ambitieux programme de quatre ans au Lesotho, qui combinait des mesures de mitigation d'impact sur le patrimoine et la formation de stagiaires dans le domaine de la gestion du patrimoine. En avance de travaux sur le barrage de Motolong, au Lesotho occidental, un groupe de dix Basotho furent fo...
Over the last four decades researchers have cast the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains as a marginal refuge for 'Bushmen' amidst constricting nineteenth-century frontiers. Rock art scholarship has expanded on this characterisation of mountains as refugia, focusing on heterogeneous raiding bands forging new cultural identities. Here, we propose another view of the Maloti...
Over the last four decades researchers have cast the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains as a marginal refuge for 'Bushmen' amidst constricting nineteenth-century frontiers. Rock art scholarship has expanded on this characterisation of mountains as refugia, focusing on heterogeneous raiding bands forging new cultural identities. Here, we propose another view of the Maloti...