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The Khoisan of the Cape are widely considered virtually extinct as a distinct collective following their decimation, dispossession and assimilation into the mixed-race group ‘coloured’ during colonialism and apartheid. However, since the democratic transition of 1994, increasing numbers of ‘Khoisan revivalists’ are rejecting their coloured identity and engaging in activism as indigenous people. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Town, this book takes an unprecedented bottom-up approach. Centring emic perspectives, it scrutinizes Khoisan revivalism’s origins and explores the diverse ways Khoisan revivalists engage with the past to articulate a sense of indigeneity and stake political claims.
Price: $66.00
Pages: 398
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series
Publication Date:
10 June 2022
ISBN: 9789004516601
Format: Paperback
[...] With the acts of identity reclamation—specifically Khoisan ethnic self-assertion—reverberating in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, this monograph is timely and pertinent. It will appeal to academics and students of history, heritage studies, ethnicity and/or subaltern studies, and postcolonial theory. Khoisan Conscious is a particularly invaluable resource for San studies and explorations of the notion of indigeneity.
It will be of interest to researchers working in the space of race and ethnic identification, memory and memorialization, and emic historicization.
Connie Rapoo, University of Botswana, in Research Africa Reviews Vol. 7 No. 1, April 2023, pp. 53-55
Connie Rapoo, University of Botswana, in Research Africa Reviews Vol. 7 No. 1, April 2023, pp. 53-55
Rafael Verbuyst has a PhD in Anthropology from University of the Western Cape (2021) and a PhD in History from Ghent University (2021), where he is currently a postdoctoral fellow. He previously published in Anthropology Southern Africa and Social Dynamics.