People, cattle and land
Subtitle: transformations of a pastoral society in Southwestern Africa
By: edited by Michael Bollig and Jan-Bart Gewald.
Contributors: Bollig, Michael.; Gewald, Jan-Bart.
Series: History, cultural traditions, and innovations in Southern Africa ;; v. 13
Publisher: R. Köppe; Rüdiger Köppe
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: Herero (African people) -- Domestic animals -- Namibia -- Congresses.; Herero (African people) -- Namibia -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.; Pastoral systems -- Namibia -- Congresses.; Cattle herders -- Namibia -- Congresses.; Range management -- Namibia -- Congresses.; Herero (African people) -- Namibia -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Transformations of a pastoral society in Southwestern Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers originally presented at a conference held in Siegburg, Germany, in 2000.
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Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. People, Cattle and Land - An Introduction; title: People, Cattle and Land - Transformations of Pastoral Society; title: Michael Bollig and Jan-Bart Gewald 3; title: II. The Emergence of Pastoral Strategies and Social Developments; title: in Southwestern Africa; title: The Origins of Pastoralism in Namibia; title: Andrew B. Smith 55; title: Archaeological Evidence from the Early Pastoral Period; title: in North-west Namibia; title: Thomas Frank 77; title: Picturing Ecology through Animal Metaphorism -; title: Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and the First Pastro-Foragers in Namibia; title: Tilman Lenssen-Erz 95; title: The Language History of Herero as a Source of Ethnohistorical; title: Interpretations; title: Wilhelm J. G. Mdhlig 119; title: III. Formations and Transformations of Pastoral Societies; title: Ozongombe, Omavita and Ozondjembo -; title: The Process of (Re-)Pastoralization amongst Herero in Pre-colonial; title: 19" Century Central Namibia; title: Dag Henrichsen 149; title: Colonization, Genocide and Resurgence:; title: The Herero of Namibia 1890-1933; title: Jan-Bart Gewald 187; title: A Sign of the Times: Samuel Maharero's Body and the Legitimation; title: of Herero Leadership; title: Hildi Hendrickson; title: From Communal Pastures to Enclosures -; title: The Development of Land Tenure in Herero Reserves; title: Wolfgang Werner; title: IV. The Economic Organization of Livestock Husbandry; title: in the 20' Century; title: Production and Exchange among the Himba of Northwestern Namibia; title: Michael Bollig; title: Drought and Mureti's Grave: The "we/us" Boundaries between; title: Kaokolanders and the People of Okakarara Area in the Early 1980s; title: Itaru Ohta; title: "At the End of the Day We Will Fight" -; title: Communal Land Rights and 'Illegal Fencing' in Otjozondjupa Region; title: Ute Stahl; title: Cry for Development: The Kaoko Development League (KDL) -; title: Colonial Legacies and the Epupa Debate in Kaoko; title: Giorgio Miescher; title: V. Conceptualizations of Environment and Society; title: In Between House and Cattle Pen - Moving Spaces in Himbaland; title: Steven van Wolputte; title: Language, Culture and Environment -; title: The Conceptualization of Herero Cattle Terms; title: Andreas Eckl; title: Classifying the Animal Kingdom: Are the Himba Naturalists?; title: (Drawing a Lesson from the Case of the Hyena); title: David Crandall; title: The Politics of Death: Demarcating Land through Ritual Performance; title: Christofer Wirnlof; title: VI. Maintaining Pastoral Identities on the Periphery; title: Assembling and Resembling -; title: Herero History in Vaalgras, Southern Namibia; title: Jeremy Silvester; title: On the Other Side of the Frontier -; title: Relations between Herero and 'Bushmen'; title: Thomas Widlok; title: Encapsulation, Prosperity and Hunger amongst the Kuvale; title: of Southern Angola; title: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho; title: List of Contributors.