Knowledge and Colonialism
Eighteenth-Century Travellers in South Africa
Biographical note
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.
Readership
All those interested in early modern anthropology, travel writing, the relationship between science and colonialism, and the representation of South Africa in the eighteenth century.
Reviews
This book shows that doing history is an ongoing interaction between reading, translating, and interpreting—which together further historiographical discourse.
Alette Fleischer, Isis, Vol. 102, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 567-568
In documenting the changing views that reached Europe over the decades concerning the peo-ples of South Africa, notably the San, Khoikhoi, Xhosas, mixed-race Bastaards, and, not least, white settlers of Dutch origin, Huigen documents an important early chapter in the history of anthropology and ethnography.
[...] The text is closely tied to and powerfully reinforced by this visual material [39 glossy color plates with 46 illustrations], much of it strikingly beautiful.
James E. McClellan III, Centaurus, European Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53, Issue 3, August 2011, pp. 247–248
...valuable overview of eighteenth-century scientific knowledge at the Cape [...]
Saul Dubow, British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 43 (2010), issue 3, pp. 490-491
Siegfried Huigen zeigt auf, wie man ein solch spannendes Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Entstehung unseres europäischen Wissens über eine fremde Region und über die dortige Bevölkerung wissenschaftlich exact kategorisieren und analysieren kann. Das Buch leistet darüber hinaus einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Geschichte der geographischen Erforschung Süd-afrikas.
Ulrich van der Heyden, Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Missiongeschichte, 28 (June 2010).
Alette Fleischer, Isis, Vol. 102, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 567-568
In documenting the changing views that reached Europe over the decades concerning the peo-ples of South Africa, notably the San, Khoikhoi, Xhosas, mixed-race Bastaards, and, not least, white settlers of Dutch origin, Huigen documents an important early chapter in the history of anthropology and ethnography.
[...] The text is closely tied to and powerfully reinforced by this visual material [39 glossy color plates with 46 illustrations], much of it strikingly beautiful.
James E. McClellan III, Centaurus, European Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53, Issue 3, August 2011, pp. 247–248
...valuable overview of eighteenth-century scientific knowledge at the Cape [...]
Saul Dubow, British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 43 (2010), issue 3, pp. 490-491
Siegfried Huigen zeigt auf, wie man ein solch spannendes Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Entstehung unseres europäischen Wissens über eine fremde Region und über die dortige Bevölkerung wissenschaftlich exact kategorisieren und analysieren kann. Das Buch leistet darüber hinaus einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Geschichte der geographischen Erforschung Süd-afrikas.
Ulrich van der Heyden, Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Missiongeschichte, 28 (June 2010).
Table of contents
Preface
List of illustrations
1. Wagon routes: an introduction
2. Peter Kolb’s defence of the “Hottentots” (1719)
3. Expeditions from Fort Lijdsaamheijd: The VOC and the geography of southern Africa in the beginning of the eighteenth century
4. Trade and science: Reports of the VOC expedition by Hendrik Hop from 1751-1762
5. Xhosa and Khoikhoi “households”: Representations of inhabitants of Southern Africa in the Gordon Atlas
6. The adventures of a Surinamese Frenchman in South Africa: The travel accounts of François le Vaillant
7. A ‘Black Legend’ of Dutch colonialism in the Travels (1801-1804) of John Barrow
8. Batavian colonial politics and travel accounts about South Africa
9. The first ethnographic monograph: De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti
10. Conclusion: Knowledge and Colonialism
Annex 1. Independent Editions and Translations of Peter Kolb’s Capvt Bonae Spei Hodiernvm in the Eighteenth Century
Annex 2. Structure of the Nieuwste en Beknopte Beschryving van de Kaap der Goede-Hoop
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Illustration Section
List of illustrations
1. Wagon routes: an introduction
2. Peter Kolb’s defence of the “Hottentots” (1719)
3. Expeditions from Fort Lijdsaamheijd: The VOC and the geography of southern Africa in the beginning of the eighteenth century
4. Trade and science: Reports of the VOC expedition by Hendrik Hop from 1751-1762
5. Xhosa and Khoikhoi “households”: Representations of inhabitants of Southern Africa in the Gordon Atlas
6. The adventures of a Surinamese Frenchman in South Africa: The travel accounts of François le Vaillant
7. A ‘Black Legend’ of Dutch colonialism in the Travels (1801-1804) of John Barrow
8. Batavian colonial politics and travel accounts about South Africa
9. The first ethnographic monograph: De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti
10. Conclusion: Knowledge and Colonialism
Annex 1. Independent Editions and Translations of Peter Kolb’s Capvt Bonae Spei Hodiernvm in the Eighteenth Century
Annex 2. Structure of the Nieuwste en Beknopte Beschryving van de Kaap der Goede-Hoop
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Illustration Section
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