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	Saartjie Baartman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baartman was a servant of Dutch farmers near Cape Town when Hendrick Cezar, the brother of Baartman's employer, suggested that she travel to England for exhibition, promising her that she would become wealthy.
		Saartje never allowed this latter trait to be exhibited while she was alive (Strother 1999).
		Baartman's remains were returned to her land of birth, the Gamtoos Valley, on 3 May 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saartje_Baartman (757 words)

	Namibiana Buchdepot: Buch, Bücher, Karten, Video, CD, DVD, Reiseführer, Geschichte, Antiquariat, Flora, Fauna, Kunst, ...
		Saartje Baartman is a potent symbol of the humiliation suffered by indigenous people in general and indigenous South Africans in particular.
		Saartje Baartman has become a focus of the way in which human beings were used by eighteenth- and nineteenth- century theorists of race to prove the superiority of Europeans; she stands for all those who were reduced to specimens and scientific information.
		Saartje Baartman is becoming an icon (hopefully not a pawn) in fractious post - apartheid coloured politics.2 There is a growing pride in having indigenous roots, and people are choosing to identify with the original inhabitants of southern Africa.
	www.namibiana.de /index.cfm?action=ViewDetails&itemid=2086 (713 words)

	'Hottentot Venus' welcomed home in South Africa
		Baartman was put on display for six years in 19th-century Britain and France as a sexual freak for her large posterior and genitalia -- a physical trait associated with the Khoisan ethnic group.
		Baartman was born in South Africa's southeastern Gamtoos Valley area on August 9, 1786 but was living in Cape Town in 1810 when a British ship's doctor took her to London, promising that she could earn a fortune by allowing foreigners to look at her body.
		He said Baartman was "a great symbol" because of both her sad history and the fact that she was born in the year of the French Revolution, when France adopted the principles of brotherhood, freedom and equality.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/may/africa/025A66537E.html (660 words)

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		Saartje was born and raised in the Gamtoos River valley in 1789.
		The government will seek a return of the full Saartje Baartman exhibit and all related items -- the complete skeleton, a full death-cast of her body, and certain preserved organs, including soft tissue remains of the brain and genitals.
		THE BARE FACT: Saartje Baartman's body was extensively examined after her death and her skeleton put on display in the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2000/10/28/southafrica/IACT.HTM (735 words)

	A Vénus Hotentote - Sarah Baartman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Saartjie Baartman's early life is unknown except that she came from a clan of Quena people, better known in South Africa by the derogatory term "Hottentot", in the Eastern Cape.
		Baartman sailed with Dunlop to England, where she was put on display in a building in Piccadilly, exciting crowds of working-class Londoners who viewed her with a mixture of morbid curiosity and malice.
		Baartman's treatment drew the attention of London abolitionists, who took her "managers" to court, claiming that she was an exploited illiterate -- in short, a slave.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /220602.html (7827 words)

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		JOHANNESBURG -- The remains of Saartje Baartman, the Khoi woman who was exhibited in Paris as an ethnological and sexual curiosity in the 19th century, will finally arrive home on May 3.
		Baartman had come to symbolise the oppression of all indigenous minorities and it was hoped that her tragedy would serve as a valuable lesson for future generations.
		Born at the Cape in 1789, Baartman was taken to London in 1810 by a British ship's doctor, William Dunlop, who persuaded her that she could make a fortune by displaying the anatomical features particular to the Khoi people.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2002/04/23/southafrica/BMAY.HTM (380 words)

	Saarja Baartman
		Baartman had unusually large buttocks and genitals, and in the early 1800s, Europeans were arrogantly obsessed with their own superiority, and with proving that others, particularly fls, were inferior and oversexed.
		Baartman’s physical characteristic were not unusual for Khoisan women, although her features were larger than normal, but were “evidence” of this prejudice, and she was treated like a freak exhibit in London.
		Venus is the Roman goddess of love, a cruel reference to Baartman being an object of admiration and adoration instead of the object of leering and abuse that she became.
	www.tcnj.edu /~wooster3 (839 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Return of 'Hottentot Venus' unites Bushmen
		Baartman's remains, which were placed in a coffin draped in the South African flag, were returned 186 years after her death in Paris where she died a pauper.
		The joy around the celebrations to mark the return of Baartman's remains was however, tempered by accusations from some in the Khoisan community that the national and provincial governments are hijacking the event for political gain.
		Baartman was born in 1789 into the Khoisan tribe of hunter-gatherers who lived in the southernmost tip of Africa and were also known as "Hottentots".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/1971103.stm (701 words)

	IOL: Some dignity at last for Saartje Baartman
		In a moving ceremony, a choir from North West province sang as a crate containing Baartman's remains was presented to Mabandla at the South African embassy in Paris.
		When the cast of Baartman made by French scientists in the 19th century came into view, her body was quickly covered by a leopard skin sarong to respect her dignity.
		Baartman's life was the stuff of tragedy, a tale of suffering as a woman, as a Khoisan, but also as victim of the colonial era.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=13&art_id=ct20020429201453226S632222 (745 words)

	MISCAST: NEGOTIATING THE PRESENCE OF THE BUSHMEN
		She uses the case of Saartje Baartman, the infamous Hottentot Venus, who was displayed in the salons of Paris in the early nineteenth century.
		In the late twentieth century, the rights to Saartje Baartman's body are still contested by museums and people who claim to be her direct descendents, demanding the right to bury her in a dignified manner.
		She argues that the "mixture of legitimate anthropology and covert pornography" is a "combination not as dissonant as it sounds" because the exercise of power lies at its core.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v3/v3i2a9.htm (1118 words)

	IOL: 'Hottentot Venus' comes home
		The remains of Saartje Baartman, the Khoi woman who left Africa for Europe in 1810 and was exhibited there as the "Hottentot Venus", arrived in Cape Town on Friday morning after a transit stop in Johannesburg from Paris.
		Baartman, born near the Great Fish River in the Eastern Cape in 1789, was 21 when she left Cape Town for London in the company of an English ship's surgeon.
		Baartman was similarly exhibited in Paris during 1815 and died there at the end of that year from an "inflammatory and eruptive malady".
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1020426482747B263 (526 words)

	Sarah Baartman Tribute
		Baartman's remains - her skeleton and bottles containing her brain and genitialia in preserving fluid - were on
		Her remains were due to be buried on a thorny hill overlooking the small town of Hankey.
		I think that a monument fitting to Sarah Baartman should capturing not only her true beauty and essence, but also that of the country she came from.
	www.tcnj.edu /~caulker2 (647 words)

	Saartje (Sara) Baartman
		When Saartje (Sara) Baartman left the shores of Africa, little did she know that her body parts would be returned to her home land 187 years later and that she would fuel the racist notions of fl inferiority and fl female sexuality in Europe.
		Born in 1789 in the Eastern Cape of present-day South Africa, Saartje was a member of the Khoisan group, the original inhabitants of southern Africa.
		Losing the case on a technicality, Saartje spent four years in London and then went to Paris where she was exhibited in a travelling circus, and seen frequently controlled by an animal trainer in the show.
	www.blackhistorypages.net /pages/sbaartman.php (620 words)

	Biographies of Special South Africans - Saartjie Baartman
		aartjie Baartman was born in 1789 into the Griqua tribe of the eastern Cape, a subgroup of the Khoisan people who are now thought to be the first aboriginal inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa.
		Baartman was supposed to earn half of the proceeds from her performances, but in fact she saw little of the profits.
		French Research Minister Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg said: "France wants to restore the dignity of Saartje Baartman, who was humiliated as a woman and exploited as an African." Ambassador Thuthukile Skweyiya stated: "Saartje Baartman is beginning her final journey home, to a free, democratic, non-sexist and non-racist South Africa.
	zar.co.za /baartman.htm (991 words)

	The Herald : News
		Johannesburg — THE remains of Saartje Baartman, the Khoikhoi woman known in her time as the “Hottentot Venus” and who was exhibited in Paris as an ethnological and sexual curiosity in the 19th century, will finally arrive home on May 3.
		Born in the Cape Colony in 1789, Baartman was taken to London in 1810 by a British ship’s doctor, William Dunlop, who persuaded her that she could make a fortune by displaying the anatomical features peculiar to the Khoikhoi people.
		On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman’s steatopygous buttocks and apron-like genitalia.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2002/04/23/news/n05_23042002.htm (328 words)

	Saartjie Baartman
		Secondly, Saartjie Baartman was the victim of colonialism and sexism because her dignity as a woman and her rights were denied.
		Thus did Saartjie Baartman become a mere biological specimen to be dissected and dismembered to arrive at predetermined conclusions that justified her categorisation as a mere biological specimen.
		The struggle for the return of the remains of Saartjie Baartman to her motherland was a struggle to uproot the legacy of many centuries of unbridled humiliation.
	www.nathanielturner.com /saartjiebaartman.htm (1526 words)

	Saartje's burial still on hold
		Journalist John Pilger is scathing in his criticism of the "whiter than white" policies of the SA govt.
		Cape Town - No final decision had yet been taken on where to bury the remains of Saartje Baartman, the Khoi woman exhibited in freak shows in Europe in the early 1800s as the "Hottentot Venus".
		Baartman, born near the Great Fish River in 1789, was 21 when she left Cape Town for London with an English ship's surgeon.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/0,,2-7_1189789,00.html (268 words)

	RaceSci: History of Race in Science: In Media{ Saartjie Baartman Returns to South Africa From France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The remains of Saartje Baartman, packed into a wooden case and loaded onto a South African plane, arrived in Johannesburg at about 7:00 am (0500 GMT) on Friday, public radio SABC reported.
		Baartman was born in what is now South Africa in 1789.
		In Britain, she was paraded as a savage and forced to show off her protruding posterior and her outsized genitals.
	web.mit.edu /racescience/in_media/baartman/baartman_afp_may2002.htm (232 words)

	The return of the bodily remains of Saartje Baartman to the country of her birth on May 3 2002 ended 192 years of ...
		The return of the bodily remains of Saartje Baartman to the country of her birth on May 3 2002 ended 192 years of “exile” that
		Saartje (literally “little Sarah”) Baartman is believed to have been born near the Great Fish River in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1789.
		It was considered imperative in certain French legal circles that this text be constructed in such a way that it should not be used as a precedent for other claims on museum artefacts and property in France.
	www.sanch.org /amagugu2/baartman.htm (659 words)

	Saartje to come home?
		Cape Town - The return of the remains of an African warrior to Botswana earlier this month had once again raised the question of whether Saartje Baartman might soon be returned to South Africa, Arts and Culture Minister Ben Ngubane said on Tuesday.
		Discussions with French museum authorities on the return of Baartman's remains - from Paris' Musee de l'Homme, where they have been stored since her death in that city in 1816 - were at "an extremely sensitive and difficult stage", he said in a statement.
		A woman of Khoikhoi extraction, Saartje Baartman was born near the Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape in 1789.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/0,,2-7_924438,00.html (487 words)

	The Scotsman - International - ‘Hottentot Venus’ is laid to rest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		THE remains of Saartje Baartman, the female Bushman who was paraded naked around Britain in a sexual freak show some 200 years ago, were buried yesterday with full ceremony in a remote South African valley.
		Baartman has become an icon for South African women, who continue to suffer exploitation and domestic abuse in a country with one of the world’s worst rates of rape.
		However, descendants of the Baartman family were not invited to the ceremony, leading Bushmen leaders to accuse the new fl élite of exploiting the Hottentot Venus all over again - not for money but for political aggrandisement.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=870142002 (355 words)

	380_studentessay_wicomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As she says of Baartman in her essay, “Shame and Identity: the Case of the Coloured in South Africa,” “Saartje Baartman, whose very name indicates her cultural hybridity, exemplifies the body as site of shame, a body bound up with the politics of location” (93).
		This book and other writings like it, combined with spectacles like the one of Saartje Baartman being displayed naked to Europeans who did not understand her body shape, except that it was different from their own and therefore obviously “freakish,” were the roots of shame for the ‘coloured’ community in South Africa.
		Saartje Baartman, taken from her homeland of southern Africa, provided the physical evidence of ‘coloured’ lasciviousness and became, simultaneously, an object of desire and revulsion for white men in the late nineteenth century.
	www.cord.edu /faculty/steinwan/380_studentessay_wicomb.htm (5909 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/social
		I announced our intention to have the remains of Ms Baartman returned in 1995, when I committed my Department to have her remains returned in order to be given a proper and dignified burial in the country of her birth.
		Saartje Baartman (1789-1816) was a tragic victim of the era of colonialism.
		Not only has she become a symbol of the excesses to which inhumanity was carried during the colonial and imperialist era, but also of the humiliation suffered by indigenous people in general, and more particularly, those in South Africa.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/social/0,2172,5652,00.html (754 words)

	Pulse of the Twin Cities - Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper
		In the early 19th century, Saartje Baartman, a farm servant of a Dutch colonist in Khoikhoi (part of what later became South Africa), was one of at least two young women who were lured to London by sleazoid Hendrick Cezar’s lies about a lucrative dancing career.
		Baartman was sold to a freak show and exhibited for her contoured anatomy in general, her elongated labia and striking rump in particular; if you tipped the promoter, you got to stroke her behind.
		Billed as “Venus Hottentot,” the ruthlessly exploited Saartje Baartman was such a big hit in 1810 London, audiences attended in droves and the royalty commissioned private peep shows.
	www.pulsetc.com /article.php?sid=2388 (840 words)

	Untitled Document
		In January 2002, the French government — apparently inspired to act by a poem to Saartje Baartman which appeared on the internet —announced that her remains would indeed be returned for burial in South Africa.
		As Dorothy Driver writes in her afterword to the Feminist Press edition of the novel: `Where history is silent, myth often speaks, and Wicomb's reinvention of history needs to deal with a current mythification involving two early South African women, Krotoä/Eva and Saartje Baartman' (2001 228).
		Saartje Baartman, born over 100 years later, was by no means the only African woman to be exhibited in Europe, but her story — even to the present day — has been particularly spectacular.
	www.uow.edu.au /arts/kunapipi/xxiv12/Easton.htm (283 words)

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