HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pastoralism, Lochner V. New York, Moral Economy
Document Summary
The dutch colony of the cape of good hope 1786. The river runs south to north, available year round. Has a relatively low carrying capacity, low herds. Not enough vegetation to support a lot fo animals. Early rock art showed that they saw the europeans. 6 c"s source analysis of brakfontein loan farm permit. There is ongoing colonial settlement, land claim routine. One view: this is a straightforward government document. Another view: claiming the right to dispose of the land through the displacement of khoisan. Kolb gave a lot of attention to how settlers and khoisan did things. Their moral economy justified in their mind the appropriate meanings and uses of nature. Struggles over the use and meaning of natural resources. Land claims and the displacement of san hunters and khoikhoi pastoralists by settler pastoralists. This displacement is a result from land loan usage. It shows the overlap between settler and khoisan pastoralism: two-way cultural exchange on the frontier.
