The political and legal contradictions in the preservation and dissolution of the precapitalist mode of production: the Fokeng disturbances, 1921-1926
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2015
Authors
Simpson, Graeme Neil
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PREFACE
The central focus of this study is on the political and legal
implications of the preservation dissolution of pre-capitalist modes
of production. The literature to date has taken account of these
criteria and related them intrinsically to the economic relations
without actually developing this at a concrete level. In the case of
the Fokeng an opportunity to do so presents itself, thereby both
enhancing the notions of preservation and dissolution, as well as
exploring the effects of this on a specific Chiefdom in a relatively
understudied area of analysis. In addition to this, the study
attempts to examine the functioning of the state, in its political role,
found itself to be a haphazard and often contradictory process. This
is done at the level of operation of Departments of State, an area of
study, which despite this attempt, requires a great deal more analysis.
The study is, in effect a work in progress and thus the areas which were
examined were examined in as much depth as possible, to the exclusion
of fuller analysis in other areas. The examination of the effect
of missions in the area, was somewhat neglected, due mainly to the fact
that most of the mission records are now housed in Germany. However,
the in-depth study of the legal disputes, and the wealth of information
in the Secretary of Native Affairs files, specifically in Volume 316
(15/55), warranted the fine focus accorded them and rendered up some
fascinating data.