Colonial Polity Research Articles

To Leibniz, from Dorha: A Khoi Prayer in the Republic of Letters

Perhaps one of the saddest consequences of the demise of traditional Khoikhoi societies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is the loss of their languages. Contemporary reports by visitors abound with references to how difficult the Khoi language was to learn, while at the same time commending the Khoikhoi for their ability to learn European languages. By about 1700, only half a century after Dutch colonisation, most Khoikhoi living in the colonised areas of the Western Cape could speak some form of Dutch in addition to their own language. However, the rapid spread of European settlers deeper into the interior, on the one hand, and the acculturation of the Khoikhoi and their inclusion in the colonial polity and economy, on the other hand, meant that by the end of the eighteenth century Khoi was spoken only on the fringes of the Cape colony. Cape Khoi was increasingly replaced by (a form of) Dutch as the first language of the native inhabitants of the Cape. Thus, on his tour of Southern Africa in 1803-1806, Heinrich Lichtenstein could observe that ‘on the borders alone are some Hottentots to be found who speak their own lariguage; but among them several foreign words are introduced, spoken with the Hottentot accent and snort’. Cape Khoi was by this stage rapidly dying out.

Moral Character, Policy Effectiveness, and the Presidency: The Case of JFK

The founding fathers laid down a number of principles for successful governance in the new republic. Among these, in the formal sense, were written constitutions, the division of power among three branches of government, checks and balances to prevent abuse of power, the rule of law, and equality before the law. Most of these ideas were English in origin and had been practiced, in varying degrees, in the colonies. The failure of the colonial polity, the founders believed, had occurred because at times British power in North America had been exercised in opposition to notions of sound governance. In addition, the founders heeded public opinion and accepted, somewhat reluctantly, broad participation by white males in the political process. Having experienced British tyranny, they embraced free speech and a free press. While these various principles, the founders agreed, were ingredients that could produce a republic, such a republic would be viable only if the people and their political leaders possessed virtue.

The ‘Jamaica 300’ celebrations of 1955: Commemoration in a colonial polity

The ‘Jamaica 300’ celebrations of 1955: Commemoration in a colonial polity

Social Identity and Craft Specialization among Toro Iron Workers in Western Uganda

This ethnographic case study focuses on part‐time independent specialists who mined iron ore, smelted ore into raw iron, and forged raw iron into objects in the pre‐colonial and early colonial polity of Toro in western Uganda. Since a small sub‐set of these iron workers were also attached to the Toro omukdma, or king, the social identities of Toro iron workers in different contexts are explored. Essential to both the effective practice of their craft and to their social identities, however, was the use of esoteric, non‐technical knowledge. Details of the rules and rituals practiced during iron working, as well as the possible archaeological manifestations of such activities, are also examined.

Egalitarian Ideals and Exclusionary Practices: U.S. Pedagogy in the Colonial Philippines

Abstract This essay examines U.S. colonial education in the early 20th‐century Philippines, focusing on the ways in which the teachers recruited from the U.S. derailed the colonial administrators’ earnest if ingenuous attempt to dismantle the indigenous structure of privilege in the new possession vie a system of free primary schooling. The approach breaks with the notion of the state as the ultimate locus of force and attends instead to the study of local sites and ordinary, everyday practices of social regulation. In so doing, it argues that the U.S. teachers in the field transformed the directives handed down to them into a pedagogy that came to have its own subverting tactics, mechanisms and trajectory within the wider colonial polity.

Anthropological Reconstruction of a Marine Extension Program

The role of anthropologists in the context of social change and technology and information transfer has been reviewed and documented extensively. With the recent expansion of applied anthropology and application of non-traditional research methodologies, anthropologists are turning into consultants, managers, and coordinators supervising technology' transfer programs related to resource utilization. Our peers are participating in those settings because of the need for professionals capable of offering a holistic approach to management, who understand both organizational and clientele culture and behavior and the political process. With years of experience in conflictive milieus, such as colonial polities, we have backgrounds and skills useful in constructing buffer zones between diverse and opposing interests, and the ability to deal with the complexities of multi-ethnic settings.

Apartheid Planning in South Africa: The Case of Port Elizabeth

This article seeks to examine the development of statutory racial segregation in the South African city as applied to Port Elizabeth. The partially segregated colonial city was converted between 1950 and 1985 into a set of virtually totally separate areas for the different groups recognized by government planners. The restructuring in physical land use terms, together with the movement of population, profoundly affected the appearance and organization of the city, with serious implications for future planning. has profoundly affected the form and pattern of the urban areas, resulting in the emergence of the Apartheid city (Christopher, 1982; Lemon, 1987). This has been the subject of many studies and projections as rapid Black urbanization undermines the basic concepts of the entire structure (Smit and Booysen, 1981). However, few cities were planned as Apartheid cities from their inception. The majority were founded as colonial cities with a measure of economic segregation which was reflected in racial terms (Christopher, 1983). Within the colonial polity, however, lay the elements of legal segregation inherited from the experience of the colonial power in earlier times. The Apartheid city therefore has its origins deep in the colonial period and the basic decisions of that era profoundly affected the manner in which later bureaucrats enforced twentieth century legislation. The present century, however, has witnessed a major restructuring of South African cities to achieve the maximum possible degree of racial segregation. The colonial programmes were refined and new measures adopted to separate first, the Black indigenous population from the remainder, and later the White population from other groups. This involved not only a major structuring of legal constraints upon the population as to where people may live, work and enjoy recreation, but a major exercise in land use zoning to achieve the aims of the legislators. As David Smith (1982) has stated, Apartheid is 'the most ambitious contemporary exercise in applied geography', whereby political objectives are translated into plans and urban building programmes. Thus, models of the Apartheid city have been proposed by Western (1981), Davies (1981) and these may be applied to all South African cities as legislators' aims have been converted into concrete landscape terms. It is proposed to examine the city of Port Elizabeth in the Cape Province as an example of the transformation of a colonial city into an Apartheid city. It is also an opportunity to assess the degree to which post-1948 planning has achieved its objectives at a time when the whole concept of Apartheid has been called into question not only in political opposition circles, but also within the government itself. Port Elizabeth provides a particularly significant example of replanning a city. It is the major city of the eastern Cape and has experienced a turbulent history in the last few years. An examination of the implementation of residential segregation within the city may assist in the understanding of current events and the problems associated with political change (Simon, 1984). The township of Port Elizabeth was laid out in 1815, although it was only five years later that it was named after the wife of the Acting Governor. Its basic function was to handle and later process the goods and materials passing through the harbour. The settlement grew as a result of the expansion of trade, particularly the development of pastoral activities in the interior of South Africa after the 1840s and later mining in the

Property Relations Amongst the Edendale Kholwa 1850–1900

Although the colonial power which sptarheaded the process of conquest and colonial settlement in Natal was an industrial'poWer, it did not automatically bring with it relations of property ownership and surplus appropriatiotrassociated with the productive enterprise of factory or mine. Instead, it brought to Natal the foremnners of capital accumulation, merchants and land speculators, who hoped to make fortunes for themselves by opening Natal to European settlement. Conquest, however, had not led to the complete destruction of indigenous kinship societies within the territorial boundaries of Natal. The colonial polity and economy emerged as an articulation of pre-capitalist and mercantile social relations

The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity, by A. W. Singham

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The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity. By &lt;italic&gt;A. W. Singham&lt;/italic&gt;. [Caribbean Series, Number 12.] (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1968. Pp. xiv, 389. $10.00.)

Journal Article The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity. By A. W. Singham. [Caribbean Series, Number 12.] (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1968. Pp. xiv, 389. $10.00.) Get access The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity. By Singham A. W.. [Caribbean Series, Number 12.] (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1968. Pp. xiv, 389. $10.00.) Lowell Ragatz Lowell Ragatz Alaska Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 75, Issue 2, December 1969, Page 625, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/75.2.625 Published: 01 December 1969

The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity

The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity

The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity.

The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity.

The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity. By A. W. Singham. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. Pp. 389. $10.00.)

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The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity

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Colonial Polities in Africa. By H. A. Wieschhoff. African Handbooks No. 5. University of Pennsylvania Press and Humphrey Milford. 1944. Pp. vi + 138. 9s. 6d.

Colonial Polities in Africa. By H. A. Wieschhoff. African Handbooks No. 5. University of Pennsylvania Press and Humphrey Milford. 1944. Pp. vi + 138. 9<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.