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Divided by the Word - Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities (Hardcover)
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Divided by the Word - Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities (Hardcover)
Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History
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Divided by the Word refutes the assumption that the entrenched
ethnic divide between South Africa's Zulus and Xhosas, a divide
that turned deadly in the late 1980s, is elemental to both
societies. Jochen Arndt reveals how the current distinction between
the two groups emerged from a long and complex interplay of
indigenous and foreign-born actors, with often diverging ambitions
and relationships to the world they shared and the languages they
spoke. The earliest roots of the divide lie in the eras of
exploration and colonization, when European officials and
naturalists classified South Africa's indigenous population on the
basis of skin color and language. Later, missionaries collaborated
with African intermediaries to translate the Bible into the
region's vernaculars, artificially creating distinctions between
Zulu and Xhosa speakers. By the twentieth century, these foreign
players, along with African intellectuals, designed
language-education programs that embedded the Zulu-Xhosa divide in
South African consciousness. Using archival sources from three
continents written in multiple languages, Divided by the Word
offers a refreshingly new appreciation for the deep historicity of
language and ethnic identity in South Africa, while reconstructing
the ways in which colonial forces generate and impose ethnic
divides with long-lasting and lethal consequences for indigenous
populations.
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