The history, form and context of the 19th century corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo

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dc.contributor.advisorHall, Simonen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorKramer, Patricia Anneen_ZA
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dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
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dc.description.abstractThe major objective of this thesis was to record, document and describe the corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo, a form of 19th century vernacular architecture. The thesis builds on the pioneering descriptive work of James Walton in the 1960s. Description of these structures lays the foundation for a more contextual interpretation of them. This focuses on the 19th century trekboer small stock farmers who occupied these buildings, and whose cultural history dates back to their 18th century movement onto the VOC Cape frontier that resulted in ongoing interaction with indigenous people and the Karoo habitat. The thesis specifically suggests that these corbelled buildings were an outcome of these cultural exchanges and interactions with Khoe and southern Sotho-speaking farmers. The research examines evidence for the chronology of these structures between the 1820s and 1870s, reasons for their discrete distribution in the Karoo and the engineering of construction.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationKramer, P. A. (2012). <i>The history, form and context of the 19th century corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12087en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationKramer, Patricia Anne. <i>"The history, form and context of the 19th century corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12087en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKramer, P. 2012. The history, form and context of the 19th century corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Kramer, Patricia Anne AB - The major objective of this thesis was to record, document and describe the corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo, a form of 19th century vernacular architecture. The thesis builds on the pioneering descriptive work of James Walton in the 1960s. Description of these structures lays the foundation for a more contextual interpretation of them. This focuses on the 19th century trekboer small stock farmers who occupied these buildings, and whose cultural history dates back to their 18th century movement onto the VOC Cape frontier that resulted in ongoing interaction with indigenous people and the Karoo habitat. The thesis specifically suggests that these corbelled buildings were an outcome of these cultural exchanges and interactions with Khoe and southern Sotho-speaking farmers. The research examines evidence for the chronology of these structures between the 1820s and 1870s, reasons for their discrete distribution in the Karoo and the engineering of construction. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - The history, form and context of the 19th century corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo TI - The history, form and context of the 19th century corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12087 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationKramer PA. The history, form and context of the 19th century corbelled buildings of the Great Karoo. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12087en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Archaeologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherArchaeologyen_ZA
dc.titleThe history, form and context of the 19th century corbelled buildings of the Great Karooen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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