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Ontsluit van "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spesiaal:OnlangseVeranderingsMetSkakels/Gordon_Griffith" Contree: 1991 No 29 NWU-IR Home
Segregation and plague: King William's Town and the plague outbreaks of 1900 - 1907. /
Preller, G.S. 1988. Joernaal van 'n trek: uit die dagboek van Erasmus Smit. [Boek resensie] /
Schoeman, K. 1989. Olive Schreiner: 'n lewe in Suid-Afrika 1855 - 1881. [Boek resensie] /
Thompson, P.S. 1990. Natalians first: separatism in South Africa 1909 - 1961. [Book review] /
Wessels, A. 1987. Die oorlogsherinneringe van kommandant Jacob Petrus Neser. [Boek resensie] /
In terminology and literature local history is specified by various concepts. Apart from local, urban, rural, everyday, environmental and regional history the term local lore is often used as a synonym for this branch of history. The local historian's interest is indeed in place. To him it forms the decor of history, enabling him to analyse aspects of the past from the perspective of the 'smallest possible social and spacial units'. Its focus on the immediate locale thus provides local history with a different angle than that of national history. Where the latter is actually 'history from above' or from the 'high structures', local history - as an inherent part of social history - concentrates on the 'lower levels'. It studies the individual, group and community in the smaller world or microcosm historically and in its totality (i.e. in width and in depth). The premise is a reconstruction 'from the bottom up', with the 'ordinary', 'everyday' and even 'forgotten' person obtaining a place in history.
This issue of Contree includes examples of such an approach. The focus is on the Bokaap, King William's Town, Bloemfontein during the mid-1920s and, in a broader context, the Langeberg region with its fruit farming. All these articles fit in well with the definition of local history as the 'study of past events and of people or groups in a given geographic area, in and through time.' Contree and the future
Die plaaslike historikus se belangstelling is inderdaad in plek. Dit vorm vir hom die dekor van die geskiedenis en stel hom in staat om aspekte van die verlede vanuit die perspektief van die 'smallest possible social and spacial units' te ontleed. Sy onmiddellik-lokale benadering en funksie gee aan plaaslike geskiedenis dus 'n ander invalshoek as die van die nasionale geskiedenis. Laasgenoemde is eintlik 'geskiedenis van bo af', vanuit die 'boonste strukture'. Plaaslike geskiedenis - as inherente deel van sosiale geskiedenis - is daarenteen op die 'onderste vlakke' toegespits. Sodoende word die enkeling, groep en gemeenskap in die kleiner wereld of mikrokosmos histories, in sy totaliteit (d.w.s. in breedte en diepte) bestudeer. Die uitgangspunt is 'n rekonstruksie van 'onder af' waar die 'gewone', 'alledaagse' en selfs 'vergete' mens 'n staanplek in die geskiedenis verwerf. Voorbeelde van so 'n benadering is in die uitgawe van Contree opgeneem. Daar word naamlik gefokus op die Bokaap, King William's Town, Bloemfontein in die middel-twintigerjare van hierdie eeu en, in 'n ietwat breër verband, die Langebergstreek met sy vrugtebedryf. Al die bydraes sluit mooi aan by die definisie van plaaslike geskiedenis as die 'study of past events and of people or groups in a given geographic area, in and through time.'