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dc.contributor.authorBoeyens, J C A
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-24T07:10:27Z
dc.date.available2012-08-24T07:10:27Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationBoeyens, J.C.A. 2012. The intersection of archaeology, oral tradition and history in the South African interior. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 64:1-30, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0379-9867
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/7016
dc.description.abstractThe historical entanglement of indigenous and colonial societies in South Africa created not only multiple points of social and cultural interaction, but also a repository of interconnected material, oral and documentary records. A multi-source, comparative approach across disciplinary boundaries is, therefore, essential to achieve a full and seamless account of late precolonial and early colonial African history. Oral tradition could serve as a bridge between archaeology and text-based history, thereby enabling historically known political lineages to be connected with the archaeological ruins of specific precolonial African towns. Similarly, documentary sources on African societies of the interior are often very limited in scope even deep into the nineteenth century, as a result of which the complementary use of archaeological methods and data becomes a methodological imperative. Three case studies from the South African interior, Marothodi, Kaditshwene and Magoro Hill, are presented to illustrate the explanatory potential of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the more recent African past.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSchool for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West Universityen_US
dc.subjectArchaeologyen_US
dc.subjectOral traditionen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectEntanglementen_US
dc.subjectInterdisciplinarityen_US
dc.subjectFive Hundred Year Initiativeen_US
dc.subjectOlifantspoorten_US
dc.subjectMarothodien_US
dc.subjectKaditshweneen_US
dc.subjectMagoro Hillen_US
dc.titleThe intersection of archaeology, oral tradition and history in the South African interior.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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