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- Title
A nexus of lives: how a heretical bishop contributed to our knowledge of South Africa's past.
- Authors
Lewis-Williams, J. D.
- Abstract
This article sketches a series of events that link the lives of contrasting personalities. It leads from a Cambridge academic theologian to a German philologist who recorded the lives and beliefs of nineteenth-century San people, and then on to the present-day, post-apartheid South African national coat of arms. Along the way, events, some momentous, some apparently trivial, brought these two men together and situated them in a network of conflicting interests and the people who worked to realize those interests.
- Subjects
BLEEK, W. H. I. (Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel), 1827-1875; COLENSO, John; BISHOPS; THEOLOGIANS; PHILOLOGISTS; INTERPERSONAL relations; SAN (African people); SOCIAL networks; GERMANS; POST-apartheid era
- Publication
Southern African Humanities, 2008, Vol 20, p463
- ISSN
1681-5564
- Publication type
Article