Article: Francois-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar, L'Invention du Hottentot : histoire du regard occidental sur les Khoisan (XVe-XIXe siecle).

Transcript: South Africa Fights for Remains of ...
NPR Morning Edition;  April 5, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... African woman known as the ``Hottentot Venus.'' The woman became ... paid to see the so-called Hottentot Venus, an African woman put ... in France and returned to South Africa. Stephanie Griffith reports ... of the Khoi Khoi [sp] or Hottentot tribe. According to Andre ...

Article: Impressions Of South Africa: Chapter VIII - The ...
History of the World;      700+ words ... ... 0000 Chapter VIII - The Natives: Hottentots, Bushmen, And Kafirs By far the ... interesting features in the history of South Africa have been the relations to one ... These three are the Bushmen, the Hottentots, and those Bantu tribes whom we ...

Article: Saartjie Baartman, the `Hottentot Venus', has at last been ...
History Today;  October 1, 2002 ;     371 words ...Saartjie Baartman, the `Hottentot Venus', has at last been buried in the remote Gamtoos Valley in South Africa by her tribespeople. Baartman was taken to Europe from the Cape in 1810 and put on show at circuses, museums and universities ...

Article: The re-objectification and re-commodification of Saartjie ...
African American Review;  December 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... a member of the Khoi-San (Khoikhoi and San) peoples of South Africa, was put on near-nude public display in London and Paris. Ironically and perversely dubbed "The Hottentot Venus," she became the main attraction and a thriving business ...

Article: Hottentot Venus: Biography Seeks to Document Little Known ...
Targeted News Service;  February 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... biography for the Hottentot Venus, but it ... Manchester, Paris and South Africa examining shipping ... when she left South Africa and headed to England ... her remains to South Africa were finally answered ... film about the Hottentot Venus. Book Signing ...

Article: The Hottentot Venus
The Village Voice;  May 21, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus"; she ... Paris. Other Hottentots and Bushmen ... exterminated in South Africa by the colonial ... buttocks of Hottentot women attracted ... so-called Hottentots are said to ... San people in South Africa. Baartman ...

Article: Listening To the Lady in the Glass Case; With 'Hottentot ...
The Washington Post;  November 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... death; Skeleton of the Venus Hottentot; Oil painting of the Venus Hottentot; Brain conserved in bell ... whole story of the legendary Hottentot Venus is macabre. She was ... Britain's Cape Colony (now South Africa) who, as a servant, had ...