Browse Items (8 total)

  • Tags: Harri Siiskonen

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/9d15eb27b86009e1382e4d745f69b0e9.pdf
These finding aids were given to me by Dr. Harri Siiskonen at Yliopisto Itä-Suomi, Joensuu. These document various resources on Namibian studies available throughout Finland. There are microfilms of the Emil Liljeblad collection, the German…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/a817531df852eda60c951730f57359d9.pdf
This publication brings together a number of the ‘thinkpieces’ prepared for a workshop convened by the Nordic Africa Institute in Pretoria, South Africa, on 26–27 November, 2009. The workshop marked the end of the Institute’s Documentation Project on…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/471c2d1362e69caa63104cbf27dd8802.pdf
Published PhD Dissertation - This study discusses the legitimacy basis of political power and its changes in historical African societies. It starts from Luc de Heusch's tenet that political power required a legitimacy basis of a spiritual kind,…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/ccf16caafa81bda0ea1d29a0a8270723.pdf
Translation: From a Strange Wanderer to a Human Being: Finnish Missionary Work among Bushmen and the Image of Bushmen 1950-1985 - PhD Dissertation - "My study is focused on the Finnish missionary work among Bushmen in eastern Ovambo and Kavango in…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/f15a79724dd3a17a3cc0a09013f437e2.pdf
"Ovamboland, located in northern Namibia, was the most important battlefield in the Namibians, long struggle for independence. Althought nearly half of the country\'s population lives in Ovamboland, the history of the Ovambo communities has been a…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/0f606923ddd21b1e3dbc5ce30b9d3d6f.pdf
"The starting point of this study were the discussions among the Finnish research-workers interested in Africa. On the basis of the above description, they felt it necessary to start an interdisciplinary program into the former South West Africa.…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/8db99adf4360688173badafb866d49c4.pdf
Scanty evidence has been the major obstacle for studying historical demography in Sub Saharan Africa. Our most certain knowledge of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century populations development is based on a retrospective view of the…
Output Formats

atom, csv, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2