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Shipwreck survivor camps: A neglected terrestrial component of maritime archaeology in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Elizabeth van Tonder --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaIn South Africa there has been limited systematic investigation of shipwreck survivor camps as an archaeological phenomenon. In most cases these sites are investigated purely as an adjunct to work on the associated wreck. The aim of this paper is... -
Rethinking Memory in Valerie Cuthbert's The Great Siege of Fort Jesus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Wafula Yenjela --- Department of English, Stellenbosch, South AfricaThis article explores memory as remembered and re-presented by Valerie Cuthbert (1970) in The Great Siege of Fort Jesus: an Historical Novel. In the article, I reflect on the significance of memory in the novel as agency that foregrounds excluded... -
The Role of Interpreters during the Early Portuguese Presence in East Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Joseph A. B. Jackson-Eade --- Global Cultures, History and Oriental Studies, ItalyThe entry of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean caused hitherto mutually unknown societies to come into contact with each other. In this process, the figure of the interpreter played a key role. This article explores the complex relationship between... -
A Cowrie’s Life: The São Bento and Transoceanic Trade in the Sixteenth Century
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Justine Wintjes --- , South AfricaA collection of money cowries (Monetaria moneta) was discovered in the early 1980s inside a bronze cannon salvaged from the wreck site of the São Bento (1554), at the mouth of the Mzikaba River, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Using an...