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Rachel King

Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa

Material Histories of the Maloti-Drakensberg

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This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts, and object collections to explore different facets of how disorderly figures were shaped through impressions of places and material culture as much as actual transgression. Addressing themes from mobili… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-030-18414-8
  • EAN: 9783030184148
  • Produktnummer: 34609683
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 308 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.6 cm 401 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 401

Über den Autor


Rachel King is Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK. She holds degrees in archaeology from Stanford University, US, and the University of Oxford, UK, and has held a Smuts Research Fellowship in African Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Claude Leon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her work has been published in Africa, Archaeological Dialogues, History and Anthropology and the Journal of African History, among other journals.

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