Hum Core | Spring 2011 | Unit 2

Societies in Conflict

Humans, the Natural World and the Shifting Boundaries Between Them

Lecture 9. One Biome, Two Moral Economies

Key vocabulary terms underlined

Goals

Components of a historical argument

chronology | evidence | causality | significance

Interpreting primary sources

6 C’s source worksheet

Specific terms of conflict in the Olifants River Valley, 1725 – 1780s

The Olifants River Valley

Biome (ecosystem)

Early inhabitants

Colonial presence

Colonial settlement

Working with historical evidence: Brakfontein loan farm permit

Descriptions of Pastoralist Life

Khoisan and settler economies

Working with historical evidence: Kolb’s Present State of the Cape…

Contested Terrain

Resource use in a marginal environment

Access to resources and justifications of a moral economy

Multiple meanings of nature

Working with historical evidence: aggregated data

Survival (or not) in a hostile landscape

Factors that shaped South African history

Struggles over the use and meaning of natural resources

chronology | evidence | causality | significance