Title/Reference:
“A Bushman girl,” in Theal’s 1910 book.
Author: Unknown
Image No.: 7863
Code No.: E06IX14-Theal1910-fac32e
Approx. shoot date:
Circa 1910
Date uploaded:
September 23, 2006
Orig. File Size: 81 MB
Original Media: Printout
Filed under:
People Kids Printout 50-100 MB 1900-1910 Namibia Other authors
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Namibia (and south of the Zambesi River area).
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Description |
"Their power of mind in most respects is not greater than that of a European child six or seven years of age, and they have all the credulity of such a child."
Such type of comparisons (or even more detrimental, like associating them to "lower animals") was not uncommon in the language of ethnographer George McCall Theal when describing the "Bushman" in 1910 (pages 5-6). His descriptions were accompanied by disquieting images such as this one, "a Bushman girl." Theal's despise for this Meridional Africa's group expressed certain bitterness about their having resisted—succesfully until some point—colonization, through mastering their natural environment. It was such mastery what earned them the derogatory nickname Bushmen, "men of the bushes," one that would make them into a popular stereotype.
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