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Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century Namibia, by Tilman Dedering. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. 205 pp. DM 76.

Tilman Dedering's magisterial exploration of the early nineteenth-century interaction between Khoekhoe (or Khoikhoi) groups and European missionaries, in the areas known to European contemporaries as Great and Little Namaqualand, is an important work. Its significance transcends the topic in hand, given the ...