‘Di ta go; ons het dit gedoen; we did it’: Khoekhoe ethnicity, sexuality and temporalities in<i>Proteus</i>

Stobie, Cheryl

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“…26. Refer to Stobie (2016) for an alternative reading of the film's sexual politics and political valency.…”

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“…KhoeKhoe and Khoikoi are the terms that have now come into use. See Stobie (2016) and South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/khoikhoi Accessed 17 January, 2019.…”

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“…29. Blank was a Khoekhoe herder and Rijkhaert a Dutch sailor(Stobie 2016). 30.Stobie (2016:916) notes that Niven was 'based on a Scottish plant collector based in the Cape who became the protea king of Europe some thirty years after Carl Linnaeus named Proteaceae in 1735'.…”

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In/On the Bones: species meanings and the racialising discourse of animality in the Homo naledi controversy

Robillard¹

2018

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In this article, I address a controversy about species meanings and a racialising discourse of animality surrounding the Homo naledi fossils that were discovered in 2013 at the Cradle of Humankind; a fossil-rich area located just outside of Johannesburg. Nothing less than the origins, and definition, of humanity were said to be at stake in the fossils. This claim issued from the co-presence within the specimens of so-called "human" and "animal" features. In South Africa, the fossils provoked what Claire Jean Kim (2015) would call an 'impassioned dispute' about the perceived relationships between animals -particularly primates -and persons who are socially marked, and who identify, as black. Situating the naledi event within the long history of the 'interconstitution' (Kim 2015) of blackness and animality, I argue that the controversy surfaced anxieties about the untethering of racialising species meanings from prevailing ideas about the ontological foundations of "the human". By approaching the cultural politics of the dispute, I explore how it provided an opening onto the conjugation of race and species within South Africa and conclude that the naledi event attests to the perils of eliding the history of race science as well as the difficulty of retaining within anti-racist politics "the animal" as a device to secure "the human".

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“…26. Refer to Stobie (2016) for an alternative reading of the film's sexual politics and political valency.…”

Section: Consultmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…KhoeKhoe and Khoikoi are the terms that have now come into use. See Stobie (2016) and South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/khoikhoi Accessed 17 January, 2019.…”

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In/On the Bones: species meanings and the racialising discourse of animality in the Homo naledi controversy

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2018

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‘Di ta go; ons het dit gedoen; we did it’: Khoekhoe ethnicity, sexuality and temporalities inProteus

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In/On the Bones: species meanings and the racialising discourse of animality in the Homo naledi controversy

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