Demanding satisfaction: Violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth century Cape Town
| dc.contributor.author | Worden, Nigel (Univ. of Cape Town) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 11/02/2010 11:00 | |
| dc.date.available | 11/02/2010 11:00 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article analyses two separate cases of public violence which took place in Cape Town in the summer of 1772/3. At surface level they appear to be very different in character. One was a scrap among low-ranking soldiers who were playing cards at a shoreline outpost. The other was a formalised challenge between two captains of the VOC return fleet as they were lunching with the Governor, which resulted in a death and the flight of the murderer. Yet closer analysis suggests common ritualised codes of behaviour that intriguingly reveal how violence, masculinity and notions of honour operated at all social levels within the town. Both cases were complex and coded social conflicts, rooted in northern European early modern social beliefs and practices as transferred to a colonial context. However, none of these perpetrators of violence was viewed sympathetically by the VOC authorities at the Cape. By contrast, the assailant Captain who had escaped back to Europe was able to successfully appeal to the VOC directors in the Netherlands. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Worden, N. (2009). Demanding satisfaction: Violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth century Cape Town. Kronos, 35: 32-47 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/100 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
| dc.publisher | Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright author. This file may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission of the copyright holder | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
| dc.subject | Violence | en_US |
| dc.subject | Conflict | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.subject | Honour | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Men | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Masculinity | |
| dc.title | Demanding satisfaction: Violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth century Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |