Table of Contents

1. The mundane Kalahari: an introduction; 2. Boers, trekboers and bywoners: 1898–1930; 3. Into the cash economy: 1930–72; 4. Ghanzi Afrikaners 1973: a domestic description; 5. Preserving boundaries: similarities, ambiguities and avoidances; 6. Boers and Bushmen: dependence, interdependence and Independence; 7. Sharing religion: attitudes to the conversion of the Bushmen to Christianity; 8. Boers, bureaucrats and blacks; 9. Prospect: whites in a black state.

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