Rethinking Khoe and San Indigeneity, Language and Culture in Southern Africa

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Julie Grant (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) Keyan G. Tomaselli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Rethinking Khoe and San Indigeneity, Language and Culture in Southern Africa

Julie Grant (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), Keyan G. Tomaselli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Applied linguistics for ELT; Regional studies; Society & culture: general; Anthropology; Regional geography

The San (hunter- gatherers) and Khoe (herders) of southern Africa were dispossessed of their land before, during and after the European colonial period, which started in 1652. They were often enslaved and forbidden from practicing their culture and speaking their languages. In South Africa, under apartheid, after 1948, they were reclassified as “Coloured” which further undermined Khoe and San culture, forcing them to reconfigure and realign their identities and loyalties. Southern Africa is no longer under colonial or apartheid rule; the San and Khoe, however, continue in the struggle to maintain the remnants of their languages and cultures, and are marginalised by the dominant peoples of the region. The San in particular, continue to command very extensive research attention from a variety of disciplines, from anthropology and linguistics to genetics. They are, however, usually studied as static historical objects but they are not merely peoples of the past, as is often assumed; they are very much alive in contemporary society with cultural and language needs.

This book brings together studies from a range of disciplines to examine what it means to be Indigenous Khoe and San in contemporary southern Africa. It considers the current constraints on Khoe and San identity, language and culture, constantly negotiating an indeterminate social positioning where they are treated as the inconvenient indigenous. Usually studied as original anthropos, but out of their time, this book shifts attention from the past to the present, and how the San have negotiated language, literacy and identity for coping in the period of modernity. It reveals that Afrikaans is indeed an African language, incubated not only by Cape Malay slaves working in the kitchens of the early Dutch settlers, but also by the Khoe and San who interacted with sailors from passing ships plying the West coast of southern Africa from the 14th century. The book re- examines the idea of literacy, its relationship to language, and how these shape identity.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Edited by: Julie Grant (University of Johannesburg South Africa), Keyan G. Tomaselli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781032329215
ISBN 10: 1032329211
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julie Grant is senior research affiliate in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg. She has worked closely with the ‡Khomani San since 2005 spending an extensive amount of time living and working alongside the community; first as a researcher, then as the coordinator of the local community office, before returning to academia. Grant has written on San literacy and language, identity, tourism and land reform, mostly in relation to the ‡Khomani, although she has written to a lesser degree on the !xun and Khwe San. Keyan G. Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor, Humanities Dean’s Office, University of Johannesburg. His other books on this topic include Cultural Tourism: Rethinking Indigeneity (2012), Writing in the San/d (2007), Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest (2005) and Encountering in the Kalahari (a Visual Anthropology special double issue, 1999, reprinted).