EAN: 9783030184148

CAMBRIDGE IMPERIAL AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES ...

This book explores how objects  landscapes  and architecture were at the heart of how people
imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several
disciplines  it chronicles how cattle raiders were created  pursued  and controlled  and how
modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of
vignettes  Rachel King uses excavated material  rock art  archival texts  and object
collections to explore different facets of how disorderly figures were shaped through
impressions of places and material culture as much as actual transgression. Addressing themes
from mobility to wilderness  historiography to violence  resistance to development  King
details the world that raiders made over the last two centuries in southern Africa while also
critiquing scholars' tools for describing this world. Offering inter-disciplinary perspectives
on the past in Africa's southernmost mountains  this book grapples with conceptsrelevant to
those interested in rule-breakers and rule-makers  both in Africa and the wider world.

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