Land from the ancestors: popular religious pilgrimage along the South Africa-Lesotho border
Between 1843 and 1869 the Basotho monarchy lost the better part of its cultivable land to the white settlers of the Orange Free State. While various political appeals for the return of this "Conquered Territory" by the successor state of Lesotho since 1965 have proved unavailing, recent ye...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
2003
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Journal of Southern African studies
Année: 2003, Volume: 29, Numéro: 4, Pages: 977-993 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
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B Peuple B Pèlerinage B Tronc Ethnologie B Sothos du Sud B Zone frontière B Culte des ancêtres B Propriété foncière B Us et coutumes B Südafrika B Lesotho B Pèlerin |
| Résumé: | Between 1843 and 1869 the Basotho monarchy lost the better part of its cultivable land to the white settlers of the Orange Free State. While various political appeals for the return of this "Conquered Territory" by the successor state of Lesotho since 1965 have proved unavailing, recent years have seen a rapid re-occupation of certain highland caves and their environs by pilgrims who identify them as "sacred to the ancestors". (...) Attempts by the local white landowners to expel the pilgrims have proved fruitless in South Africa's "new frontier" districts bordering Lesotho, as the state is no longer willing to place the sanctity of private property above popular rights of access to religious and heritage sites. (...) Grounded in the post-apartheid context of racialised contestation over the land, the study points to the emergence of a new set of conflicting ideological discourses operating parallel to cooperative forms of practical coexistence between black and white on the Free State-Lesotho border. (JSAS/DÜI) |
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| ISSN: | 0305-7070 |
| Contient: | In: Journal of Southern African studies
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