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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 / Micheal de Jongh.
- Author
- De Jongh, M. (Michael), 1943-
- Publication
- Pretoria : Unisa Press, ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DT1058.S36 D45 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 221 pages : color illustrations, color portraits, maps; 28 cm
- Subject
- San (African people) > South Africa > Great Karoo
- San (African people) > South Africa > Great Karoo > Social life and customs
- Migration, Internal > South Africa > Great Karoo
- Indigenous peoples > South Africa > Great Karoo
- Poor > South Africa > Great Karoo
- Indigenous peoples
- Migration, Internal
- Poor
- San (African people)
- San (African people) > Social life and customs
- Great Karoo (South Africa) > History
- South Africa > Great Karoo
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Genealogical chart tipped in.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography 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.
- ISBN
- 9781868886654
- 1868886654
- LCCN
- 2012374741
- OCLC
- ocn785081931
- 785081931
- SCSB-1650571
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library