An 18th century drawing of Khoikhoi worshipping the moon

The Khoikhoi ("men of men") or Khoi are a historical division of the Khoisan ethnic group of south-western Africa, closely related to the Bushmen (or San, as the Khoikhoi called them). Khoikhoi is sometimes spelt KhoeKhoe. At the time of the arrival of white settlers in 1652 the Khoikhoi had lived in southern Africa for about 30,000 years, and practised extensive pastoral agriculture in the Cape region. Download high resolution version (875x655, 85 KB)Khoikhoi worshipping the moon, 18th century drawing. ... Download high resolution version (875x655, 85 KB)Khoikhoi worshipping the moon, 18th century drawing. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... !Kung San man from the Kalahari (1986) This article is about the Khoisan ethnic group. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... The Bushmen (also known as Khwe Khoe, Basarwa, or San) peoples of South Africa and neighbouring Botswana and Namibia, who live in the Kalahari, are part of the Khoisan group and are related to the Khoikhoi. ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Southern Africa ...

Name

Portrait listed in the 1914 New Student's Reference Book as "Hottentot."

They were traditionally - and are still occasionally in colloquial language - known to white colonists as the Hottentots, a name that is nowadays described as "offensive" by the Oxford Dictionary of South African English. The word "hottentot" meant "stutterer" in the colonists' northern dialect of Dutch, although some Dutch use the verb "stotteren" to describe the clicking sounds (klik being the normal onomatopoeia, parallel to English) typically used in the Khoisan languages. The word lives on, however, in the names of several African animal and plant species, such as the Hottentot Fig, or Ice Plant (Carpobrotus edulis). Image File history File links NSRW_Africa_Hottentot. ... Image File history File links NSRW_Africa_Hottentot. ... The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a comprehensive multi-volume dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). ... South African English is a dialect of English spoken in South Africa and to some extent, in neighbouring countries with a large number of Anglo-Africans living in them, such as Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. ... Map showing the distribution of the Khoi-San languages. ... Binomial name Carpobrotus edulis (L.) L. Bolus The Ice Plant Carpobrotus edulis is a member of the Stone Plant family Aizoaceae, one of about 30 species in the genus Carpobrotus. ...

History

Khoikhoi social organisation was profoundly damaged and, in the end, destroyed by white colonial expansion and land seizure from the late seventeenth century onwards, which ended traditional Khoikhoi pastoral life. As social structures broke down, some Khoikhoi people settled on farms and became bondsmen or farmworkers; others were incorporated into existing clan and family groups of the Xhosa people. The Xhosa people are a group of peoples of Bantu origins living in south-east South Africa. ...

Although there is no longer any 'pure' ethnic group in southern Africa with an exclusively Khoikhoi identity, mixed race groups such as the Coloured people of the Cape area; the Griqua people of the Western Cape and the Oorlams people of Namibia all possess Khoikhoi heritage or ancestry, as do many Xhosa (mainly Bantu) people of the Eastern Cape, and some people who identify as white South Africans. Categories: Africa geography stubs | Southern Africa ... In the South African and Namibian context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners) refers to a rather heterogeneous group of people of mixed Khoisan, white European descent, Malay, Malagasy, Black (Bantu), and South Indian ancestry, especially in the Western Cape. ... The Griqua (Afrikaans Griekwa) are a subgroup of South Africas heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people. ... Oorlans (also: Oorlands, Oorlams) is a West Germanic, Low German linguistic entity spoken worldwide by less than 1 million people and is spoken in the Republic of South Africa. ... The Xhosa people are a group of peoples of Bantu origins living in south-east South Africa. ... The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. ... White (also White people, White race or Whites) is a term used for a certain ethnic group or racial classification of people. ...

Hottentot women were displayed in Europe in the eighteenth century because of their presumed sexual powers. The most notable of these was a woman known as Saartjie Baartman. In his book Regular Gradations of Man (1799), Dr. Charles White, a historical race scientist, claimed blacks were half way between whites and apes in the great chain of being. He used the example of Hottentot women to show the supposedly primal sexuality of blacks. He claimed Hottentot women had overdeveloped breasts, showing a more animal nature. A caricature of Baartman drawn in the early 19th century Saartjie Baartman (1789-1815) was the most famous of at least two Khoikhoi women who were exhibited as sideshow attractions in 19th century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus. ... 1579 drawing of the great chain of being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana The Great Chain of Being is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchal system. ...

Publications

• P. Kolben, Present State of the Cape of Good Hope (London, 1731-38);
• A. Sparman, Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope (Perth, 1786);
• Sir John Barrow, Travels into the Interior of South Africa (London, 1801);
• Bleek, Reynard the Fox in South Africa; or Hottentot Fables and Tales (London, 1864);
• Emil Holub, Seven Years in South Africa (English translation, Boston, 1881);
• G. W. Stow, Native Races of South Africa (New York, 1905);
• A. R. Colquhoun, Africander Land (New York, 1906);
• Schultz, Aus Namaland und Kalahari (Jena, 1907);
• Meinhof, Die Sprachen der Hamiten (Hamburg, 1912);
• Richard Elphick, Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa (London, 1977).

Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS , FRGS , LL.D (June 19, 1764 – November 23, 1848) was an English statesman. ... Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (March 8, 1827 - August 17, 1875) was a German linguist. ... Dr. Emil Holub Emil Holub was Czech doctor, traveller in Africa and writer. ... Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (July 23, 1857_February 11, 1944) was a German linguist. ...

See also

• Namaqua, a branch of the Khoikhoi
• Khoikhoi mythology
• Saartje Baartman
• History of South Africa

Namaqua are a pastoral people of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana; one of the principal branches of the Khoikhoi race, and inhabiting Great Namaqualand. ... This is a summary, in alphabetical order, of some of the gods, heroes and monsters that appear in the beliefs of the Khoikhoi, an ethnic group from southern Africa. ... A caricature of Baartman drawn in the early 19th century Saartjie Baartman (1789-1815) was the most famous of at least two Khoikhoi women who were exhibited as sideshow attractions in 19th century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus. ... The history of South Africa encompasses over three million years. ...

External links

• Cultural Contact in Southern Africa by Anne Good for the Women in World History website
• An article on the history of the Khoikhoi
• The genetic heritage of one Afrikaans family