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…

… revised downward, from 23,000 San and Khoikhoi to 20,000 Khoikhoi in order to be consistent
with the 1652 benchmark which only includes Khoikhoi. In addition, several factors point …

Richard Elphick’s seminal work on his Yale thesis, published in 1977 and reprinted with
minor changes in 1985, began a new generation of Khoikhoi studies. 2 Not only did this work …

In 1977 when he published his thesis, Richard Elphick offered a new perspective on hunter/herder
relationships in the Western Cape of South Africa. He suggested that these were …

In 1994, the Griqua National Conference (GNC) began a vocal campaign for the return of the
remains of Saartjie Baartman from France to South Africa. This was the beginning of a very …

Tribes no longer exist, at least in the writings of Africanists, but they tend to be replaced by
very similar looking entities, going under a variety of aliases. Perhaps purely as a result of …

… that used by then Khoikhoi themselves. The disadvantage is … I have followed modem usage
by using me tenns Khoikhoi, or … Aside from its lotal lack of basis in the Khoikhoi language," …

… Many Khoikhoi lost their livestock and became attached to Dutch farming households, working
… 4) estimate of 50,000 Khoikhoi in the vicinity of the Cape Town settlement in 1652. For the …

… Khoikhoi were left little choice but to become servants. By the 1750s, Swellendam was
completely transformed, as the majority of Swellendam Khoikhoi … of the Swellendam Khoikhoi as …

In this article I argue that notions of the transformability of identity are prominent in the
official journal kept during the first ten years of the Cape's settlement by the Dutch East India …