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Combining the insights of archaeology, history and anthropology,
this account ranges from the origins of the Khoikhoi to the
contemporary politics of the Namaqualand 'reserves'. It explores
the stereotype of the 'Hottentot', the conception that the Khoikhoi
are a vanished people. "The Cape Herders" provides the first
picture of the Khoikhoi people. In doing so, it fills a
long-standing gap in the resources of Southern African studies, and
at a time when interest in the indigenous populations of South
Africa is growing daily. Combining the insights of archaeology,
history and anthropology, this account ranges from the origins of
the Khoikhoi in Southern Africa to the contemporary politics of the
Namaqualand 'reserves'. The Cape Herders explodes a variety of
South African myths - not least those surrounding the negative
stereotype of the 'Hottentot', and those which contribute to the
idea that the Khoikhoi are by now 'a vanished people'.;The story it
tells instead is one of enduring interest - the history of a
herding people in Southern Africa, its society, economy and
culture, its relationship to the indigenous hunters of the Cape,
its encounters with European expeditions, and its subsequent
exposure to the first effects of colonisation. It is a story of
change and adaptation, and it confirms the Khoikhoi's central role
in the making of today's South Africa.
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