Browsing Research articles (Dept of History) by Issue Date
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Community involvement in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management: an assessment from case studies in Southern Africa and elsewhere
(University of Chicago Press, 2008)Community archaeology has conferred an alternative dimension on conventional archaeology and heritage management, empowering previously powerless peoples, particularly the indigenous and local communities that have lost ... -
The challenges of financial responsibility in the tribal administration of Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1919-1966
(Routledge (Taylor and francis), www.routledge.com, 2008)This account of tribal finances in Bechuanaland Protectorate under British colonial rule argues that while the treasury dispensation made the tribes responsible for their finances, it also brought about a new dynamic and ... -
Critical factors in cultural tourism in Botswana
(Botswana Society, http://www.botsoc.org.bw, 2008)This discussion is a critical assessment of the role of cultural factors in promoting tourism in Botswana. From the 1990s, the Botswana Government’s policy on tourism focused on involving local community participation in ... -
History and perceptions of regionalism in Botswana, 1891-2005
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis group), http://www.routledge.com, 2009)Although economic, political, ethnic and religious factors have led to regionalisms and other divides, causing civil strife and civil wars in many countries, in Botswana the north south divide existed for a long time merely ... -
History and perceptions of regionalism in Botswana, 1891 – 2005
(Routledge, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713429127, 2009)Although economic, political, ethnic and religious factors have led to regionalisms and other divides, causing civil strife and civil wars in many countries, in Botswana the north-south divide existed for a long time merely ... -
The BaKhurutshe Anglicans of Tonota religious persecution in the Bechuanaland Protectorate
(African Studies Center, Boston University, 2010)The article is about the inter-war history of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, in which it was alleged that Tshekedi Khama, regent of the BaNgwato (1925-1949), was persecuting a small group of people for practicing Anglicanism, ... -
Limitations of British territorial control in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1918–1953
(Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)This article argues that the Kalahari desert region of the Kwena tribal reserve quietly slipped out of the imperial command from 1930–1950, at a time when British colonial authorities achieved territorial control of the ... -
The Khoisan in Botswana - Can multicultural discourses redeem them?
(Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)The Khoisan people are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Botswana has the greatest diversity of these autochthonous communities. As ethnic minorities, they are characterized in the main by small ... -
Dietary stable carbon isotope signatures of the Early Iron Age inhabitants of Ngamiland
(Botswana Society, http://www.botsoc.org.bw, 2011)The wide spread presence of Late Stone Age (LSA) and Early Iron Age (EIA) communities such as at the Tsodilo Hills, Matlapaneng, Serondela, Qogana, and other sites have been documented in Ngamiland, nofthwestetn Botswana ... -
A Leopard's Kopye burial at Mathangwane in northeastern Botswana
(South African Archaeological Society, http://www.archaeologysa.co.za, 2013)We report on a rare northern Leopard's Kopje grave in Botswana of a male from a small settlement, who, nonetheless, was buried with nine pots and many trade beads. The set of whole and decorated pots with traces of the ...