{"id":12593,"date":"2011-03-10T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T23:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12593"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:52:33","slug":"griqua-identity-a-bibliography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12593","title":{"rendered":"Griqua Identity: A Bibliography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uct.ac.za\/asl\/info\/GriquaID.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Griqua Identity: A Bibliography<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2010<br \/>\n47 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.lib.uct.ac.za\/profile.php?uid=16923\" target=\"_blank\">Allegra Louw<\/a><\/strong>, Librarian<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uct.ac.za\/asl\/index.php?html=\/asl\/info\/topicalbibs.htm&amp;libid=35\" target=\"_blank\">African Studies Library<\/a><br \/>\n<em>University of Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uct.ac.za\/asl\/info\/GriquaID.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uct.ac.za\/asl\/images\/GriquaIDcover.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most scholars acknowledge that the origins of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Griqua_people\" target=\"_blank\">Griqua<\/a> people are rooted in the complex relationships between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_peoples\" target=\"_blank\">autochthonous<\/a> KhoeSan, slaves, Africans and European settlers. Coupled with the intricacies that underpin the issue of Griqua identity\u2014and often as equally contested\u2014is the matter of terminology.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Saunders and Nicholas Southey describe the Griquas as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pastoralism\" target=\"_blank\">Pastoralists<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khoikhoi\" target=\"_blank\">Khoikhoi<\/a> and mixed descent, initially known as Bastards or Basters, who left the Cape in the late 18th century under their first leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/cape-slavery-heritage.iblog.co.za\/2009\/03\/25\/the-first-adam-kok-1710-1795\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Kok 1<\/a> (c.1710-c.1795).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They explain the name \u201cbastards\u201d as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The] term used in the 18th century for the offspring of mixed unions of whites with people of colour, most commonly Khoikhoi but also, less frequently, slaves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even in the context of post-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa_under_apartheid\" target=\"_blank\">apartheid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a>, issues of identity and ethnicity continue to dominate the literature of the Griqua people. As the South African social anthropologist, Linda Waldman, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Griqua comprise an extremely diverse category of South Africans. They are defined neither by geographical boundaries nor by cultural practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Waldman goes on to illustrate the complexities surrounding attempts to categorise the Griqua people by explaining how the Griqua have been described by some as a sub-category of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9281\" target=\"_blank\">Coloured<\/a> people, by others as either constituting a separate ethnic group, by others as not constituting a separate ethnic group, and by still others as a nation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire bibliography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uct.ac.za\/asl\/info\/GriquaID.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griqua Identity: A Bibliography 2010 47 pages Allegra Louw, Librarian African Studies Library University of Cape Town Introduction Most scholars acknowledge that the origins of the Griqua people are rooted in the complex relationships between autochthonous KhoeSan, slaves, Africans and European settlers. Coupled with the intricacies that underpin the issue of Griqua identity\u2014and often as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,8,14,520],"tags":[5663,5659,20756],"class_list":["post-12593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-south-africa","tag-african-studies-library","tag-allegra-louw","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}