Writing on skin: The entangled embodied histories of black labour and livestock registration in the Cape Colony, C. 1860-1909

It has been suggested that nineteenth-century colonial states in South Africa exercised 'power without knowledge' and that 'archival government' was the product of a post-South African War alliance between the British administration and mining capital in the Transvaal. This argum...

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Main Author: Lance Van Sittert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department
Series:Kronos
Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902014000100004&lng=en&tlng=en