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Roots and routes : Karretjie people of the Great Karoo : the marginalisation of a South African first people

Title
Roots and routes : Karretjie people of the Great Karoo : the marginalisation of a South African first people / Michael de Jongh.
Author
De Jongh, M. (Michael), 1943-
Publication
Pretoria : Unisa Press, ©2013.

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Description
xvii, 221 pages : colored llustrations, colored portraits, maps; 28 cm
Subjects
Note
  • Genealogical chart tipped in.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-213) and index.
Contents
Case study 1: Plaatjie Januarie -- 1. Introduction : Itinerants ; Poorest of the poor ; Strangers in their own land ; Karretjie agency ; Karretjie people and 'gypsies' ; Studying the Karretjie people -- 2. Karoo wanderers: environment, context and the making of the Karretjie people : The time before humans ; And then came the people ; Historical times: then came the Europeans ; Colesberg ; Victoria West ; Changing demography ; The making of the Karretjie people ; Perceptions and oral tradition ; Historical and prehistoric evidence ; The archaeological record ; Sheep-farming: from foragers to Karretjiemense -- 3. Methodology on the move: fieldwork with the Karretjie people : Entering the field: strategic and methodological considerations ; Itinerancy, domestic fluidity and disempowerment: challenges for qualitative methodology ; And itinerant children ; Unpacking methodology -- 4. Itinerancy as a way of life: strangers in their own land : Mobility ; Karretjie people as itinerants ; A way of life ; Gender roles ; Outspans ; Shearing ; Case study 9: Danster Witbooi's cycle of shearing excursions -- 5. Poorest of the poor: identity, marginalisation and strategies for survival of the Karretjie people : The many faces of South African poverty ; Karoo 'culture' and the Karretjie people ; Poorest of the poor, the consequences of an ascribed identity ; Table 1: Karretjie shearers' typical earnings and expenditure (c. 1995) ; Elusive identities ; Strategies for survival ; Strategies and domestic fluidity ; Case study 12: Emma Ackerman -- 6. Wandering learners, learning to wander : Poverty, policy and peripatetic shearers as potential learners ; Learning as wanderers ; Case study 11: Simon and Marie Jacobs ; Childhood and education: wandering learners ; Educating itinerants ; Practical and ethical issues -- 7. Autochthony and sedentism: present realities, future prospects : Sedentism ; Autochthonous status -- 8. Postscript -- Appendices : 1. Case study 13: Goeiman Klein ; 2. Table 2: Karretjie unit composition: select units, Colesberg district ; 3. Case studies 2 to 8: from farm to outspan: becoming a Karretjie shearer ; 4. Case study 10: Koot Arnoster.
Call Number
Sc+ F 13-114
ISBN
  • 9781868886654 (pbk.)
  • 1868886654 (pbk.)
LCCN
2012374741
OCLC
785081931
Author
De Jongh, M. (Michael), 1943- author.
Title
Roots and routes : Karretjie people of the Great Karoo : the marginalisation of a South African first people / Michael de Jongh.
Publisher
Pretoria : Unisa Press, ©2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-213) and index.
Indexed Term
Karretjie people Pictorial works.
Research Call Number
Sc+ F 13-114
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