The Mass Suicide of the Xhosa. Steve Kowit.
by Kowit, Steve; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 9Global Issues. Publisher: Skeptic, 2004ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Colonies -- Africa | Indigenous peoples -- Africa | Mass suicide | Psychology and religion | Self-deception | Social history | Starvation | Xhosa (African people)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "In 1857, an extraordinary religious frenzy took the lives of over 100,000 Xhosa and Thembu people in what is now South Africa, effectively destroying the Xhosa culture. But until recently a more pervasive self-deception has kept the full truth about that astonishing event from being known, for the evidence on which the historical account was based was riddled with both deliberate lies and self-delusions." (SKEPTIC) This article offers two accounts of how 100,000 Xhosa came to die of self-inflicted mass starvation and reveals how oppression and self-deception played a role.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Mass Suicide of the Xhosa, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2004; pp. 52-57.
"In 1857, an extraordinary religious frenzy took the lives of over 100,000 Xhosa and Thembu people in what is now South Africa, effectively destroying the Xhosa culture. But until recently a more pervasive self-deception has kept the full truth about that astonishing event from being known, for the evidence on which the historical account was based was riddled with both deliberate lies and self-delusions." (SKEPTIC) This article offers two accounts of how 100,000 Xhosa came to die of self-inflicted mass starvation and reveals how oppression and self-deception played a role.
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