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A history of the Breakwater Prison from 1859 to 1905
Bibliography: pages 85-89.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/21141 A history of the Breakwater Prison from 1859 to 1905 Deacon, Harriet Thornton, Robert Van Zyl Smit, Dirk Harbours - South Africa - Cape Town. Prisons - South Africa - Cape Town - History African Studies Social Anthropology Bibliography: pages 85-89. This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of a B.A (Hons.) degree in African Studies, for which my home department was Social Anthropology. The project arose out of my interest in the interdisciplinary work of Michel Foucault and its application to the history of Africa. This has been broadened into an interest in post-structuralist theory, and has been particularly focussed on the "institution". A prime example of Foucault's "complete" or "austere" institution is the prison. The Breakwater convict station, a colonial prison in Cape Town during the nineteenth century, suited both my theoretical and empirical interests. I chose this particular institution because it was the prison from which the linguist W.H.I. Bleek drew his San informants in the 1870s, and because the prison and its records were based in Cape Town. I wanted to incorporate ideas from secondary sources on Bleek and his work (e.g. Thornton 1983, Deacon 1988a). But the work took its own directions, and I have focussed here on the organization of the prison and on the prisoners in general rather than on the San. 2016-08-05T10:51:41Z 2016-08-05T10:51:41Z 1989 Bachelor Thesis Honours BA (Hons) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21141 eng application/pdf Social Anthropology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | A history of the Breakwater Prison from 1859 to 1905 |
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