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Tracks In A Mountain Range - Exploring The History Of The uKhahlamba-Drakensberg (Paperback)
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Tracks In A Mountain Range - Exploring The History Of The uKhahlamba-Drakensberg (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 650
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Since the arrival of literate European settlers in what is now
KwaZulu-Natal in the second quarter of the nineteenth century,
numerous stories about the Drakensberg region have made their way
into print. But for every story which happens to have been written
down, there are many others which have not, and which are therefore
unavailable to us in our aim of wanting to establish a modern-day
understanding of the history of the Drakensberg. This applies
especially to the stories told by the unlettered San
hunter-gatherers and their forebears during the several thousand
years for which they inhabited these mountains, and by the
isiNtu-speaking black farmers who have lived in the neighbouring
uplands for the past thousand years or so. But it also applies to
the unwritten stories told by European colonizers and their
descendants over the last century and a half.;The declaration of
the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park as a World Heritage Site - on the
basis of its scenic beauty, high degree of biodiversity and the
exceptional cultural value of its heritage of San rock art -
provides an occasion for reflecting on the history and people of
the region, from the earliest known times to the present.
Constructed from archaeological and written sources, this book
highlights the histories of the indigenous San hunter-gatherers and
black farmers, as well as of the European colonisers. The
accessible text is complemented by photographs of the landscape,
rock art and archaeological finds.;The authors have not aimed to
write a definitive history, but have tried to open up ways of
looking at the region's past which go beyond the mainly 'colonial'
views which have predominated in the literature up to the present.
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