Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa Material Histories of the Maloti-Drakensberg /

• Main Author: King, Rachel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan-History.; Imperialism.; Social history.; Archaeology.; Ethnology-Africa.; History of Sub-Saharan Africa.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Social History.; African Culture.

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 str...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: The slow regard of unruly things
• 2 'Waste-howling wilderness': The Maloti-Drakensberg as unruly landscape
• 3 'Were they half civilized?' Knowledge and reminiscence in the Maloti-Drakensberg
• 4 Unsettled encounters; Or, if walls Could Speak about
• 5 'Appetite comes with eating': Of raiding and wrongdoing
• 6 Persist, resist: Rebellion in Slow-Motion
• 7 Things of the nation: Disorderly heritage
• 8 Conclusion.