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This e-book examines how colonial identities have been built within the Cape Colony of South Africa because its institution within the 17th century as much as the 20th century.
it really is an explicitly archaeological method yet which additionally attracts extra broadly on documentary fabric to ascertain how diverse humans within the colony - from settler to slave - built identities via fabric tradition. The
e-book explores 3 key teams: The Dutch East India corporation, the unfastened settlers and the slaves, via a couple of archaeological websites and contexts. With the archaeological proof, the ebook examines how those different
teams have been enmeshed inside of racial, sexual, and sophistication ideologies within the broader context of capitalism and colonialism, and attracts generally on present social idea, specifically post-colonialism, feminism and Marxism. This
publication is aimed basically at archaeologists, yet also will allure historians and people drawn to cultural conception and fabric tradition reviews. particularly, ancient archaeologists and scholars of historic archaeology
may be the fundamental readership and dealers.
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