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Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Europeans --- Khoisan (African people) --- Khoi-San (African people) --- Ethnology --- History. --- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) --- South Africa --- Race relations. --- Race question

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The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples, including the famous Bushmen or San 'hunters', the Khoekhoe 'herders' (in the past called 'Hottentots'), and the Damara, also a herding people. Most Khoisan live in the Kalahari desert and surrounding areas of Botswana and Namibia. In spite of differences in their way of life, the various groups have much in common, and this book explores these similarities and the influence of environment and history on aspects of Khoisan culture. This is the first book on the Khoisan as a whole since the publication in 1930 of The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa, by Isaac Schapera, doyen of southern African studies.

Bushmen (African tribe) --- Khoikhoi (African people) --- Khoikhoi (Afrikaans volk) --- Khoikhoi (Peuple africain) --- San (African people) --- San (Afrikaans volk) --- San (Peuple africain) --- Khoikhoi (peuple d'Afrique) --- San (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Khoisan (African people) --- Khoisan (African people). --- Khoi-San (African people) --- Ethnology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Hottentot (African people) --- Hottentots --- Khoe (Khoikhoi people) --- Khoi (African people) --- Khoikhoin (African people)