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2000, R. Köppe, Rüdiger Köppe
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: I. People, Cattle and Land - An Introduction
People, Cattle and Land - Transformations of Pastoral Society
Michael Bollig and Jan-Bart Gewald 3
II. The Emergence of Pastoral Strategies and Social Developments
in Southwestern Africa
The Origins of Pastoralism in Namibia
Andrew B. Smith 55
Archaeological Evidence from the Early Pastoral Period
in North-west Namibia
Thomas Frank 77
Picturing Ecology through Animal Metaphorism -
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and the First Pastro-Foragers in Namibia
Tilman Lenssen-Erz 95
The Language History of Herero as a Source of Ethnohistorical
Interpretations
Wilhelm J. G. Mdhlig 119
III. Formations and Transformations of Pastoral Societies
Ozongombe, Omavita and Ozondjembo -
The Process of (Re-)Pastoralization amongst Herero in Pre-colonial
19" Century Central Namibia
Dag Henrichsen 149
Colonization, Genocide and Resurgence:
The Herero of Namibia 1890-1933
Jan-Bart Gewald 187
A Sign of the Times: Samuel Maharero's Body and the Legitimation
of Herero Leadership
Hildi Hendrickson
From Communal Pastures to Enclosures -
The Development of Land Tenure in Herero Reserves
Wolfgang Werner
IV. The Economic Organization of Livestock Husbandry
in the 20' Century
Production and Exchange among the Himba of Northwestern Namibia
Michael Bollig
Drought and Mureti's Grave: The "we/us" Boundaries between
Kaokolanders and the People of Okakarara Area in the Early 1980s
Itaru Ohta
"At the End of the Day We Will Fight" -
Communal Land Rights and 'Illegal Fencing' in Otjozondjupa Region
Ute Stahl
Cry for Development: The Kaoko Development League (KDL) -
Colonial Legacies and the Epupa Debate in Kaoko
Giorgio Miescher
V. Conceptualizations of Environment and Society
In Between House and Cattle Pen - Moving Spaces in Himbaland
Steven van Wolputte
Language, Culture and Environment -
The Conceptualization of Herero Cattle Terms
Andreas Eckl
Classifying the Animal Kingdom: Are the Himba Naturalists?
(Drawing a Lesson from the Case of the Hyena)
David Crandall
The Politics of Death: Demarcating Land through Ritual Performance
Christofer Wirnlof
VI. Maintaining Pastoral Identities on the Periphery
Assembling and Resembling -
Herero History in Vaalgras, Southern Namibia
Jeremy Silvester
On the Other Side of the Frontier -
Relations between Herero and 'Bushmen'
Thomas Widlok
Encapsulation, Prosperity and Hunger amongst the Kuvale
of Southern Angola
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
List of Contributors.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.
Papers originally presented at a conference held in Siegburg, Germany, in 2000.
Errata slip inserted

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Köln
Series
History, cultural traditions, and innovations in Southern Africa ;, v. 13
Genre
Congresses.
Other Titles
Transformations of a pastoral society in Southwestern Africa

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Library of Congress
DT1558.H47 .P46 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 540 p. :
Number of pages
540

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3626864M
ISBN 10
3896453521
LCCN
2002413802
OCLC/WorldCat
48621279
Goodreads
7287353

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