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Lit: 0906.11
Date: 4 juni 2009
From: S. Huigen <sh@sun.ac.za>
Subject: Lit: 0906.11: Te verschijnen: Siegfried Huigen. Knowledge and Colonialism: Eighteenth-century Travellers in South Africa. (2009)
Te verschijnen
- Siegfried Huigen: Knowledge and
Colonialism: Eighteenth-century Travellers in
South Africa. Atlantic World Series, 18. 2009. 320
blz.; EUR 99,00; ISBN 978 90 04 17743
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The establishment of a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in the
seventeenth century and an expansion of the sphere of colonial
influence in the eighteenth century made South Africa the only part
of sub-Saharan Africa where Europeans could travel with relative ease
deep into the interior. As a result individuals with scientific
interests in Africa came to the Cape. This book examines writings and
drawings of scientifically educated travellers, particularly in the
field of ethnography, against the background of commercial and
administrative discourses on the Cape. It is argued that the
scientific travellers benefited more from their relationship with the
colonial order than the other way around.
Siegfried Huigen is Associate Professor of Dutch Literature and
Cultural History at the University of Stellenbosch, in South Africa.
He publishes regularly on early modern representations of the
extra-European world and South African politics of memory.
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