Hidden struggles in rural South Africa: politics & popular movements in the Transkei & Eastern Cape, 1890-1930

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Title:	Hidden struggles in rural South Africa: politics & popular movements in the Transkei & Eastern Cape, 1890-1930
Authors:	Beinart, William Bundy, Colin
Year:	1987
Pages:	326
Language:	English
City of publisher:	London
Publisher:	Currey
ISBN:	085255012X; 0520057791; 0520057805; 0852550138
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	rural society colonial conquest dual economy
Abstract:	The authors sought to discover how two linked processes - the incorporation into an expansive capitalist economy and the imposition of colonial rule - affected the lives of African people in rural South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They investigated how these processes were translated into specific patterns of political behaviour and belief. An introductory essay delineates some of the characteristics of the area, sketching the material, social and ideological terrain. It also identifies some of the concerns that underpin the other eight chapters: the ambiguities of 'resistance' and 'collaboration'; the form and content of rural popular movements; how precolonial and precapitalist structures and practices both survived and were reworked during decades of transformation; what changes occurred in relationships between leaders and followers, between modernizers and traditionalists, between material interests and ideology. The remaining eight chapters are all case studies.