"Rachel King is one of those rare archaeologists who understands that scholars who use archives and material traces have to pay attention to the epistemologies - archaeological and other - that produced those archives and traces as "sources." They have to do as much work in finding out how the sources were produced as they do using the sources to think about events in the past. King does both things with flair and the results are dramatic. Unpicking the entrenched "habits of thinking" that idealise settlements as monuments to success and present sedentism as progress, King' study brings the intelligences mobilised by Moorosi and the BaPhuthi of the Maloti-Drakensberg into view. King's recasting of mobility in the landscape as a political advantage, and the result of strategy, breathes fresh conceptual life into the tired lineaments of the Mfecane debate."? (Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town, South Africa) "This archaeologically informed analysis of the politics of place, identity and being in the Malotsi-Drakensberg during the nineteenth century breaks new analytical and theoretical ground on what it means for individuals and groups to be classed as 'outlaws'. Drawing on diverse conceptualisations of anxiety, affect, dwelling and materiality, King explores and deconstructs colonial constructs of unruly behaviour, highlighting the agency and dynamism of communities living on the boundaries of the emerging colonial state, and the effectiveness of their strategies of resistance. Her book offers a fresh perspective on the history of British-Malotsi relations and their material manifestations in the archaeological record, alongside a wealth of stimulating insights of wider comparative significance and resonance.

" (Paul Lane, University of Cambridge, UK).