Clifton Crais

The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South Africa

Introduction Part I. Cultures of Conquest: 1. The death of hope 2. Ethnographies of state 3. Rationalities and rule Part II. States of Emergency: 4. Prophecies of nation 5. Government acts 6. Conflict in Qumbu 7. The men of the mountain 8. Flights of the lightning bird Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

Gender and the making of a South African Bantustan : a social history of the Ciskei, 1945-1959

Mapping, boundaries and contested structures: defining the borders mapping the family - the creation of Zwelitsha the people get fenced patriarchs, politics and ethicity. Subjectivities, gender regimes and resistance: gendering identities between childhood and adulthood independent women and youth in the city of East London sexuality, fertility and male power educating an elite - gender regimes and resistance.

White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865.

Illustrations Maps and figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Chronology Preface Part I. Times of Plenty, Times of Pain: 1. Shapes in a land: economy, ritual, and identity 2. People of another house: slavery, mimesis, and the frontier Part II. Colonial Paradoxes: 3. A departure: the will to power 4. The taste of freedom other men eat so sweet: the emancipations 5. The manor on the hill: British settlers in a New South Africa 6. Ambiguous frontiers: religion, trade and misunderstanding 7. Empire and the savages: capitalism, the state, and the image of the African 8. Beasts of prey 9. Of witchcraft, poles and old times that were past: the story continued Part III. Of the Conquerors and the Vanquished: 10. Empire and t he ancestors Notes Bibliography.

Slavery and freedom in South Africa

The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840. By RICHARD ELPHICK and HERMANN GILIOMEE. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1989. Second Edition. xix, 623 pp. The Slave Question: Liberty and Property in South Africa. By R.L. WATSON. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1990. xi, 274 pp.