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Miscellaneous Newspaper, Magazine, and Journal Articles
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This collection holds magazine and newspaper articles pertaining to Namibia or Namibian affairs. Note: only non-Namibian publications are consulted here.
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Animal Husbandry of the Hottentots
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In a controversial article from the 1930s, Epstein seeks to provide and agricultural and ecological history of the Nama of Southern Namibia, with emphasis on livestock.
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H. Epstein
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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, Vol. 9, No. 2. October 1937
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PDF
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1937
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English
Cattle
Dogs
Epstein
Goats
Land Tenure
Livestock
Nama
Oxen
Sheep
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Dissertations on Namibia
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This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded.
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Wells of Experience: A pastoral land-use history of Omaheke, Namibia
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PhD Dissertation - "The conventional view on the Kalahari in southern Africa expresses that the area is unsuitable for livestock herding. For this reason, it is argued that livestock herders avoided the Kalahari in the past and were only able to establish themselves in the later half of the twentieth century, when deep-reaching boreholes were introduced in the area. An effect of this concept was that the archaeological record of pastoralists in the Kalahari either was perceived as non-existent or received little attention from scientific enquiry. Based on an archaeological survey in the Kalahari of the northeastern part of Namibia, the purpose of this study is to construct an alternative approach to the archaeology of livestock herding. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the areas unrecorded land-use history. I depart from the notion that the main ecological constraint for dryland pastoralism is the availability of dry season water and fodder resources. For this reason, the fundamental basis for a pastoral land-use system is places that contain dry season resources. By reviewing recent ecological research, historical and anthropological accounts and previous archaeological research, I establish a link between livestock herders’ procurement of dry season key resources and the practice of digging wells. The link can be motivated from the pastoral ambition of accumulating livestock and high water requirements in the restrained dry season. On this basis, I suggest that artificial wells are useful indicators of pastoral land use in the Kalahari. The most crucial task for the study is to address the archaeological visibility of pastoral well sites. By a research approach integrating the theoretical understanding of pastoralism and a methodology including ecology, archaeology, history and the knowledge of the people who keep livestock in the region today, the archaeological survey revealed 40 well sites, including nearly 200 well structures that have all been used for watering livestock. However, it would be unfortunate if a study of pastoral wells would solely address the ecological foundation and the archaeological visibility of pastoralism. I suggest that the wells signify the labour of peoples with common or separate histories, with or without own herds, but probably talked about in relation to herds. I will also argue that the wells can be used for tracking and reconstructing a pastoral land-use system that predated the colonial era. Furthermore, the wells can be used to identify changes of the land-use that took place during the twentieth century, which involved that livestock herding was more or less abandoned in large parts of northwestern Kalahari. The study surmises that the critical historical perspective is valuable for development projects and conservationist interventions active in the region, especially in the light of the recent trends in the dryland ecology, which shows a larger appreciation for the indigenous understanding of the management of dryland ecosystems. With modifications, the developed approach can be applicable for land-use historical research elsewhere in southern Africa."
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Karl-Johan Lindholm
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Uppsala Universitet
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PDF
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2006
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English
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http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn%3Anbn%3Ase%3Auu%3Adiva-7084
Cattle
Conservation
Ecology
Kalahari
Karl-Johan Lindholm
Omaheke
Pastoralism
Uppsala
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Dissertations on Namibia
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This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded.
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Cattle for Beads: The Archaeology of Historical Contact and Trade on the Namib Coast
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Published PhD Dissertation - "Walvis Bay, the largest and safest harbour on the Namib coast, was known to maritime explorers as early as the fifteenth century European voyages of discovery. This study centres on 58 archaeological sites in the IKhuiscb Delta around Walvis Bay and Sandwich Harbour. The variety and distribution of trade goods among the sites reveal the indigenous response to the outside world, previously known only from written records documenting the attitudes and opinions of the foreigners. Walvis Bay was the port of access; the IKhuiseb River led to the interior. Because little modern development took place in the delta or the environs of the town before the late 1980s, the area provided an excellent opportunity for archaeological investigation of contact between indigenous society and the seafaring nations of western Europe. The voyages of discovery in the fifteenth century opened a maritime route which drew the people of the African coast directly into a network of trade with Europe (Wallerstein 1989) (Fig. 1.1). With new markets for cheap raw materials and their mass-produced goods, European mercantile interests expanded to dominate the world economy in succeeding centuries. During this process, some African societies diversified their economies and increased production as a result of the expanded external trade (Spear 1978; Kjekshus 1996) but ultimately, indigenous societies suffered major disruption and collapse (Wolf 1982). The growth of European hegemony is extensively documented, while the changes to indigenous society are not well understood."
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Jill Kinahan
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Namibia Archaeological Trust & Department of Archaeology & Ancient History, Uppsala
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PDF
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2000
Language
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English
Archaeology
Beads
Cattle
Ceramics
Coast
Contact
Jill Kinahan
Material Culture
Sweden
Trade
Uppsala
Walvis Bay
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Out of Print Books on Namibia
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This collection contains full-text PDFs of various out of print books re: Namibian Studies. Most of these were published by small-name presses (such as the Finnish Anthropological Association), and for that reason they are hard to find.
Some of the out of print books can be found in other collections in this repository (such as the Basler Afrika Bibliographien); this collection is merely for those without their own. Efforts were made to receive copyright permission before uploading. For any questions or concerns, contact the webmaster.
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Gobabis: A Brief History of the Town and Region
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P.H. Van Rooyen & Peter Reiner
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Municipality of Gobabis
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© P.H. Van Rooyen & P. Reiner
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PDF
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1995
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English
Aminuis
Apartheid
Cattle
Dorsland
Epikuro
German
Gobabis
Herero
Mbanderu
Namibia
Odendaal
P.H. Van Rooyen
Peter Reiner
Thirstland
Trek
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/fc80e3e91af2b91038692113012335a7.pdf
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Out of Print Books on Namibia
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This collection contains full-text PDFs of various out of print books re: Namibian Studies. Most of these were published by small-name presses (such as the Finnish Anthropological Association), and for that reason they are hard to find.
Some of the out of print books can be found in other collections in this repository (such as the Basler Afrika Bibliographien); this collection is merely for those without their own. Efforts were made to receive copyright permission before uploading. For any questions or concerns, contact the webmaster.
Text
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Namibia in Jonker Afrikaner's Time
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The study Namibia in Jonker Afrikaner's Time is founded on the thesis of Brigitte Lau which was originally submitted to the University of Cape Town in 1982.
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Brigitte Lau
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National Archives of Namibia
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PDF
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1987
Language
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English
Archives
Bethanie
Bondelswarts
Brigitte Lau
Cattle
Damara
Hunting
Jonker Afrikaner
Nama
Oorlam
Southern Namibia
Trek
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/73aabe92ef2d28baeee592ce0add606c.pdf
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Out of Print Books on Namibia
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An account of the resource
This collection contains full-text PDFs of various out of print books re: Namibian Studies. Most of these were published by small-name presses (such as the Finnish Anthropological Association), and for that reason they are hard to find.
Some of the out of print books can be found in other collections in this repository (such as the Basler Afrika Bibliographien); this collection is merely for those without their own. Efforts were made to receive copyright permission before uploading. For any questions or concerns, contact the webmaster.
Text
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Pastoral Nomads of the Central Namib Desert: The People History Forgot
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"Precolonial Namibian history is largely unrecorded, but crucial evidence still exists in the form of archaeological remains, and it is to these neglected sources that I have turned to reconstruct the course of the last few millennia in the Central Namib Desert. The research described here covered several hundred archaeological sites, including the remains of large settlements in areas that are now completely deserted. Evidence from these sites forms the basis of this book which is my attempt to regain for the history of Namibia those lost episodes of the last two thousand years, from the first appearance of the pastoral economy, until the advent of the colonial era. Prior to this investigation the Namib archaeological sequence was poorly known, being incomplete for want of essential field evidence and, I believe, severely hampered by inappropriate premises of research. Although the research I describe in this book builds upon previous knowledge, my arguments and general approach are new to the archaeology of this region. In contrast to earlier research which tended to embrace the conventional history and project the descriptions of the nineteenth century deep into the past, I have developed a largely independent account, presenting the archaeological evidence for each step towards a history of the economy and society of the Namib pastoralists. This introductory chapter first presents the background to the research, describing the Central Namib Desert and the archaeological sequence as it is presently known."
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John Kinahan
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Namibia Archeological Trust & New Namibia Books
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© John Kinahan
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PDF
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2001
Language
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English
Archaeology
Cattle
Ecology
herding
Hunting
John Kinahan
Namib Desert
Pastoralism
Rock art
settlement
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Out of Print Books on Namibia
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An account of the resource
This collection contains full-text PDFs of various out of print books re: Namibian Studies. Most of these were published by small-name presses (such as the Finnish Anthropological Association), and for that reason they are hard to find.
Some of the out of print books can be found in other collections in this repository (such as the Basler Afrika Bibliographien); this collection is merely for those without their own. Efforts were made to receive copyright permission before uploading. For any questions or concerns, contact the webmaster.
Text
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Farming Systems in Namibia
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"Farming has thus forcefully shaped human history over the past 11,000 years. But what of Namibia, where agriculture has only been practiced during the last thousand years or so? How has farming changed, and what sections of Namibian society are hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, crop producers or the beneficiaries of surpluses produced by others? What kinds of agriculture may help us escape poverty? Can we produce surpluses that are simply edible, or can they be sold to generate money to buy food grown by other people, perhaps in other countries? And setting ourselves higher goals, how can Namibia secure enough surplus food to have time and energy for technological and economic development? These are big questions. This book focuses on more modest questions, such as: how do Namibians farm and what factors influence agriculture? But without addressing the smaller questions, it may take much longer to get at the bigger challenges."
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John Mendelsohn, Selma el Obeid, Nico de Klerk and Piers Vigne
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Namibia National Farmers Union, RAISON (Research and Information Services of Namibia)
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PDF
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2006
Language
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English
Agriculture
Cattle
Farming
Goats
John Mendelsohn
Livestock
Namibia National Farmers Union
Natural resource use
Nico de Klerk
Piers Vigne
RAISON (Research and Information Services of Namibia)
Selma el Obeid
Sheep