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Title: | A view from the other side: oral recollections of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 |
Authors: | De Villiers, Johan Wolhuter, Charl C. |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | New contree: a journal of historical and human sciences for Southern Africa |
Issue: | 49 |
Pages: | 48-63 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | oral history Anglo-Boer wars Afrikaners |
Abstract: | The utilization of reminiscences presents a potential source of material for writing history. Because reminiscences contain subjective experiences not to be found in official, written documents, they represent a valuable supplement to the latter. Because of the possibility of repression, or distortion, these reminiscences should, however, be as carefully assessed as written sources, i.e. by comparing them to other oral reports and to available written documents. This paper examines some surviving oral recollections of ordinary (mainly Afrikaans-speaking) eye-witnesses and close relatives who experienced the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War in their unique circumstances and who could still recall their personal experiences after some 75 years. Ref., sum. in Afrikaans. [ASC Leiden abstract] |