Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figure and Map......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
1 Language in the Land of the ‘Hottentots’ and ‘Caffres’: European Travellers to the Eastern Cape, 1652–1806......Page 25
Travel writing and natural science: Anders Sparrman’s Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope......Page 31
Colonization and collecting language: John Barrow’s Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa......Page 41
Classifying the ‘nomade’ language: Heinrich Lichtenstein’s Travels in Southern Africa......Page 54
2 Of Translation and Transformation: The Beginning of Missionary Linguistics in South Africa......Page 62
Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp and the first Christian mission to the Xhosa......Page 63
The features of missionary language study......Page 68
3 Studying Language in the ‘Moral Wilderness’: Methodist Linguistics in the Eastern Cape......Page 78
William Binnington Boyce’s Grammar of the Kafir Language......Page 84
 John Whittle Appleyard’s The Kafir Language......Page 105
The Cattle Killing and William J. Davis’s Kafir Dictionary......Page 123
4 Language, Culture, and ‘the Native Mind’: Missionary Language Study in Natal......Page 129
Knowing the ‘native mind’: Lewis Grout’s The Isizulu......Page 140
‘Meeting the heathen half way’: Bishop John WilliamColenso’s mission as dialogue......Page 154
Henry Callaway’s researches into comparative mythology and Zulu religion......Page 173
5 From Languages to Language: The Comparative Philologist in South Africa......Page 180
‘The discovery of the process of human development’: Linguistic and cultural evolution in Bleek’s ‘universal philology’......Page 183
Typological classification, historical reconstruction, and the study of ‘primitive forms’......Page 190
Language, ‘race’, and the ‘Negroes’ of South Africa......Page 196
Conclusions......Page 203
Notes......Page 208
Bibliography......Page 213
Index......Page 237