TY - JOUR
T1 - Nationalism or ‘Tribalism’
T2 - The Evolution of Cape Afrikaner Ethnic Consciousness in the Late Nineteenth Century
AU - Tamarkin, Mottie
PY - 1995/7
Y1 - 1995/7
N2 - Abstract. This article seeks to explore the evolution of the ethnic consciousness of the Afrikaners in the Cape Colony at an initial and crucial stage. The colonial Cape Afrikaners are treated as a core community, distinguished from Afrikaner communities in other states in South Africa. It is argued that their collective consciousness was shaped primarily by their core colonial experience rather than by their ethnocultural commonality with the other diaspora Afrikaner communities. Having been socialised into the British colonial state, they have evolved a collective consciousness premised on neither ethnic self‐determination nor ethnic exclusiveness. Correspondingly, their political outlook incorporated both British imperialism and Cape white multi‐culturalism. They were mobilised ethnically to secure their share in the spoils of the British colonial state rather than to attain ethno‐nationalist goals.
AB - Abstract. This article seeks to explore the evolution of the ethnic consciousness of the Afrikaners in the Cape Colony at an initial and crucial stage. The colonial Cape Afrikaners are treated as a core community, distinguished from Afrikaner communities in other states in South Africa. It is argued that their collective consciousness was shaped primarily by their core colonial experience rather than by their ethnocultural commonality with the other diaspora Afrikaner communities. Having been socialised into the British colonial state, they have evolved a collective consciousness premised on neither ethnic self‐determination nor ethnic exclusiveness. Correspondingly, their political outlook incorporated both British imperialism and Cape white multi‐culturalism. They were mobilised ethnically to secure their share in the spoils of the British colonial state rather than to attain ethno‐nationalist goals.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0029484363&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00221.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1354-5078.1995.00221.x
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AN - SCOPUS:0029484363
SN - 1354-5078
VL - 1
SP - 221
EP - 242
JO - Nations and Nationalism
JF - Nations and Nationalism
IS - 2
ER -