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Title: | The tribal system in South Africa : a study of the Bushmen and the Hottentots | ||||||
Author: | Schapera, Isaac |
ISNI:
0000 0001 0931 5269
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Awarding Body: | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | ||||||
Current Institution: | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) | ||||||
Date of Award: | 1929 | ||||||
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Abstract: | |||||||
By the end of the Seventeenth century, when the Dutch
settlement at the Cape was already firmly established, and the
foundation had thus been laid for the present political
dominance of the white man in the country, Africa south of the
Kunene Okavango and Zambesi Rivers was inhabited by a considerate.
number of different native peoples On the basis of
racial, linguistic and cultural distinction, these can all be
classified into four main stocks, commonly known as the Bushmen,
the Hottentots, the Bergdama and the Bantu respectively.
The Bushmen are a short, brownish-yellow people, with
certain peculiar and racial characteristics, they all
speak languages of a uniform, well-defined and easily recognizable
type, phonetically remarkable especially for the great prevalence
of click consonant; and they practice neither agriculture nor
pastoralism, but live in small separate commutative which lead a
nomadic hunting and collecting existence.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.543132 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | DT Africa ; GN Anthropology ; HT Communities. Classes. Races | ||||||
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