ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Centre Court, Facies, Moloko
16 Aug 2020
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Larger; can identify chief/king"s home by looking at the size of the cattle kraal (the larger the kraal, the more wealthy you are) Space is physically marked, not symbolically marked. From the front: right = male; left = female. Marootze smelt copper and work with it. Phase 3: move from symbolically separating aspects of homesteads to space being demarcated physically (boundaries marking homesteads etc. ) Free state stone-wall settlement types (see slide for more) Type n low population density; outer wall enclosing entire settlement. Type v population increase; no continuous outer wall; wall connecting settlements. Type z characterised by bilobial households; each hut surrounded by wall. Historical factors contributing to 18th century urbanisation sotho-tswana. Availability of space and a concern with sustainability in resources stronger political force by coming together. Competition between western tswana chiefdoms over resources for internal and external economy. 1st phase spatially compact; boundaries symbolically patrolled; richly decorated ceramics; high frequency of bowls.
