Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa

Rachel King is Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK. She holds degrees in archaeology from Stanford University, US, and the University of Oxford, UK, and has held a Smuts Research Fellowship in African Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Claude Leon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her work has been published in Africa, Archaeological Dialogues, History and Anthropology and the Journal of African History, among other journals.

• 1 Introduction: The slow regard of unruly things.- 2 ‘Waste-howling wilderness’: The Maloti-Drakensberg as unruly landscape.- 3 ‘Were they half civilized?’ Knowledge and reminiscence in the Maloti-Drakensberg.- 4 Unsettled encounters; Or, if walls Could Speak about.- 5 ‘Appetite comes with eating’: Of raiding and wrongdoing.- 6 Persist, resist: Rebellion in Slow-Motion.- 7 Things of the nation: Disorderly heritage.- 8 Conclusion.