| A total extinction confidently hoped for: the destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700-1795. | |
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PMID: 20941880 Owner: HMD Status: MEDLINE |
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San (Bushman) society in the Cape Colony was almost completely annihilated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of land confiscation, massacre, forced labour and cultural suppression that accompanied colonial rule. Whereas similar obliterations of indigenous peoples in other parts of the world have resulted in major public controversies and heated debate amongst academics about the genocidal nature of these episodes, in South Africa the issue has effectively been ignored aside from passing, often polemical, references to it as genocide. Even recent studies that have approached the mass killing of the Cape San with sensitivity and insight do not address it as a case of genocide. This article sets out to redress this imbalance in part by analysing the dynamic of frontier conflict between San and settler under Dutch colonial rule as genocide. It demonstrates both the exterminatory intent underlying settler violence as well as the complicity of a weak colonial state in these depredations, including its sanctioning of the root-and-branch eradication of the San. |
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Authors:
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Mohamed Adhikari |
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Type: Historical Article; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of genocide research Volume: 12 ISSN: 1462-3528 ISO Abbreviation: J Genocide Res Publication Date: 2010 |
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Created Date: 2010-10-13 Completed Date: 2010-12-30 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 101506176 Medline TA: J Genocide Res Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 19-44 Citation Subset: Q |
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Colonialism*
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history Continental Population Groups / education, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology Ethnic Groups / education, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology Extinction, Biological* History, 18th Century Homicide* / economics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology Humans Netherlands / ethnology Race Relations* / history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology Societies / economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence South Africa / ethnology Violence* / economics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology |
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