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Original Articles

‘My Name did Float Along the Road’: Naming Practices and |Xam Bushman Identities in the 19th-century Karoo (South Africa)

Pages 270-289 | Received 05 Feb 2014, Accepted 21 Jul 2014, Published online: 25 Aug 2015

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