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Multiple exostoses and an osteochondroma in a Pliocene canid from Langebaanweg 'E' Quarry (South Africa). [PDF]

open access: yesJ Anat
Overview of XS of pathological radius. Using anatomical descriptions, CT scanning and bone histology, we investigate several skeletal overgrowths of bone (exostoses) in the skeleton of a jackal‐like canid from the world famous Langebaanweg, a Mio‐Pliocene locality in South Africa.
Chinsamy A, Valenciano A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Population Ecology and Harvesting of Rooibos (<i>Aspalathus linearis</i>) and Its Ecotypes in the Wild, South Africa. [PDF]

open access: yesPlant Environ Interact
ABSTRACT Aspalathus linearis (‘rooibos’) is a polymorphic perennial shrub native to the drier, northwestern part of the Fynbos Biome in the Cape Floristic Region. It is cultivated on a large scale and wild‐harvested on a small scale to produce rooibos tea, a traditional herbal drink.
Kraaij T, Pretorius GCP.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Collaborative stewardship in multifunctional landscapes: Toward relational, pluralistic approaches [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Landscape stewardship offers a means to put social-ecological approaches to stewardship into practice. The growing interest in landscape stewardship has led to a focus on multistakeholder collaboration.
Cokburn, Jessica   +7 more
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THE VISIBILITY AND INVISIBILITY OF HERDERS' KRAALS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, WITH REFERENCE TO A POSSIBLE EARLY CONTACT PERIOD KHOEKHOE KRAAL AT KFS 5, WESTERN CAPE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The Europeans who landed on the shores of the South African Cape from the late 15th century onwards encountered local herders whom they later referred to as the Hottentots (now known as the Khoekhoe).
Bon, F   +3 more
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Ons is Boesmans: commentary on the naming of Bushmen in the southern Kalahari [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper examines academic debates about the nomenclature of the San in light of recent ethnographic data. Academic debates centre around two aspects: the apparent complicity of the term “bushman” in construing the San as lower on the hierarchy of race
Ellis, William F.
core   +1 more source

Eva's men : gender and power in the establishment of the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–74 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This article offers a fresh interpretation of the life of Krotoa/Eva, the famous Khoena interpreter of Jan Van Riebeeck, whose gender gave her a unique position in relation to both Dutch and Khoena society. It appears that her own people sent her to work
Wells, J
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The Boer and the jackal: Satire and resistance in Khoi orature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Bushman narratives have been the subject of a large volume of scholarly and popular studies, particularly publications that have engaged with the Bleek and Lloyd archive. Khoi story-telling has attracted much less attention.
Wittenberg, Hermann
core   +1 more source

Ethnic Identity, Demographic Crises and Xhosa-Khoikhoi Interaction

open access: yesHistory in Africa, 1980
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 laziness of thought, there remains a tendency of write of the Zulu, the Tswana, or the whomever, and not to probe the assumption that these units have some actual
openaire   +3 more sources

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