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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/3cf285c567da28ba527c6b3d5f80fe6b.pdf
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Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa (NAI)
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<blockquote>
<p>In 2003 the Nordic Africa Institute initiated a project to identify archives in the Nordic countries, that cover documentation on anti-apartheid resistance and the liberation struggle in Southern Africa, mainly South Africa and Namibia, during 1960-1990. (Other countries are covered, see the information box in the right hand column.) Around this time, a large number of organisations in the Nordic countries e.g. government bodies, youth and church organisations, political parties and solidarity groups participated in the struggle. As a result, vast bilateral cooperation emerged and many well documented conferences and meetings were held in the Nordic countries and in Africa. Several visits to refugee camps in Africa and encounters with different leaders were also documented on videos, tapes and in pictures. Another result was this website that works as an reference source. It was launched on 24 April 2007. (<a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/">More about the website.</a>)</p>
<p>Organisations in <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/denmark/">Denmark</a>, <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/finland/">Finland</a>, <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/iceland/">Iceland</a>, <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/norway/">Norway </a>and <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/sweden/">Sweden</a> have localized, catalogued and organized archives on the liberation struggle. The <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/">archival lists</a> are available in a database, found on this website, that has been created to make the materials known and easily accessible for researchers, students and others who are interested in this part of the world history.</p>
<p>The project was concluded in November 2009 with a <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/events/">workshop held in Pretoria, South Africa</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, in partnership with: <br /><br />The Finnish Country Committee on Archives on Anti-Colonial Resistance and Liberation Struggle in Namibia<br /><br />SWAPO Party Archive & Research Centre<br /><br />The NGO Solidarity with Southern Africa (Sweden)<br /><br />Tchiweka (Angola)<br /><br />Aluka (South Africa & USA)
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<a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/">http://www.liberationafrica.se/</a>
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Nordic Africa Institute
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© Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
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Documenting Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa
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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 Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa. Leading scholars, researchers and others, from both the Nordic countries and southern Africa, concerned with documenting those struggles, attended the workshop. The papers included here concern both the history of those struggles and the sources for that history.
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Christopher Saunders (ed.)
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Nordic Africa Institute
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© Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
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PDF
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2010
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English
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http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:344963/FULLTEXT01.pdf
anti-apartheid
Archives
Brown Bavusile Maaba
Christopher Saunders
Denmark
Finland
Gary Baines
Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Håkan Thörn
Harri Siiskonen
Henning Melber
Lene Bull Christiansen
Liberation War
Namibia
Nordic Africa Institute
Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa
Norway
Pat Liebetrau
Pekka Peltola
Solidarity
South Africa
Sweden
William Minter
Zimbabwe
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/912fea47cb310467a358ee3fc03d355b.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.
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Trade and Socioeconomic Change in Ovamboland, 1850-1906
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"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 neglected area in research on Namibian history. Research has been hindered particularly by the scarcity and dispersion of source materials. By emploing the hitherto unutilized sources of the Finnish Missionary Society Archive, Harri Siiskonen's dissertation opens up an entirely new perspective on the colorful history of Ovamboland."
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Harri Siiskonen
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Suomen Historiallanen Seura
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PDF
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1990
Language
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English
Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Finland
Harri Siiskonen
Missionaries
Ovamboland
Trade
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/2618f2bf1753a2e815aa106bd3c3efdf.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.
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Studying the Northern Namibian Past
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Research Seminar in Tvärminne, 2-4 December 1985
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Harri Siiskonen (ed.)
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Joensuun Yliopiston Offsetpaino, 1986
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© University of Joensuu (probably)
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PDF
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1986
Language
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English
Brigitte Lau
Christiane O. Kisiedu
Finland
Harri Siiskonen
Henning Melber
Joensuu
Juhani Koponen
Kaire Mbuende
Märta Salokoski
Martti Eirola
Missionary
Ovamboland
Peter Katjavivi
Richard Moorsom
Seppo Rytkönen
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/0bb291f5700ad18bfd930855c4de058e.pdf
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/33bd149278fab0d7156d905887c4a3ba.pdf
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Finding Aids
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This Collection holds digitized finding aids from various archives around the world with holdings pertaining to Namibian studies. I am in favor of digitizing finding aids, as opposed to archival materials, because it can help the researcher decide if he/she wishes to visit the archives. Digitizing archival materials for the web is a very different story because it tends to lead to researchers avoiding archives entirely if digital sources are possible.
Note: Finding Aids from the Basler Afrika Bibliographien are NOT in this collection, you can find them archived in the B.A.B. collection
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Namibiana Resources in Finland: Two Finding Aids
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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 government records, the German Colonial Society, Namibian newspapers (colonial), microfiche copies of some documents from the National Archives of Namibia, the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wuppertal, and many printed documents and journals. Some may find this difficult to read, because it schizophrenically switches between Finnish and English, but if you take your time, you can find good files. Note that, like most Finnish Research on Namibia, these largely deal with Ovamboland and the North.
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Harri Siiskonen, Kari Miettinen
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Self produced by Harri Siiskonen, University of Joensuu
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Bernard C. Moore
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PDF
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unclear
Language
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English, Finnish, German
Archives
Finding Aids
Finland
Harri Siiskonen
Joensuu
Kari Miettinen
Missionary
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/e5337b3e778f752234396aab0ec5599f.pdf
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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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How Kings are Made, How Kingship Changes: A Study of Ritual and Ritual Change in Pre-Colonial Owamboland, Namibia
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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, often formulated as sacred kingship. In ancient and pre-literate societies such kings were held to be responsible for the fertility of man, land and cattle. The king was a paradoxical figure, symbolising society, but standing above it, while simultaneously being its victim by being ritually killed at old age. This was also how Owambo sacred kings were conceived. De Heusch suggested that African kings derived their power over fertility from having been made 'sacred monsters' in the rituals of installation. With the example of Owambo kingship, this study argues that the transgressive and monstrous aspect is only one of several dimension of a king's sacredness and brings out the nurturing and symbolically female aspect, identified but not analysed further by de Heusch. In the Owambo kingly installation a king-elect was made sacred, and part of it was that a link was ritually created to the early owners of the land. Their consent made it possible for the king to promote fertility and to appropriate power emblems needed for ruling. In the kingdom of Ondonga the early owners of the land were the spirits of early Bushman inhabitants and those of an early kingly clan, both neglected in public memory. The sacred dimension of kingship was further augmented when kings manipulated and appropriated rain rituals and initiation rituals, both of which were related to fertility. The study argues that even though there were aspects of the 'sacred monster' in Owambo kingship, its manifestation was, in part, a distortion of the reciprocal aspect of kingship that was expressed in the homage paid to various ancestor spirits. A change in succession practices from ritual regicide to political assassination took place concomitant with the introduction of firearms, and this broke the sacrificial aspect of sacred kingship paving the way for a more predatory form of kingship while the sacred status of the king was retained.
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Märta Salokoski
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University of Helsinki
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PDF
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2006
Language
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English
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http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/val/sosio/vk/salokoski/abstract.html
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Finland
Harri Siiskonen
Helsinki
Kings
Kinship
Märta Salokoski
Ondonga
Ovamboland
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/248d9139f7ba8555ff9af9ac1c15d8eb.pdf
68f159766f98e40beb2d0241accaaa2f
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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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The Cultural and Social Change in Ovamboland, 1870-1915
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"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. Preparations continued in March 1981, when the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies organized a Seminar in Espoo on the topic "Namibia and the Nordic Countries". The next step was taken in May 1982, when the Institute of Developing Studies and the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies arranged in Hyytiälä a meeting of Africa research in Finland."
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Martti Eirola, Seppo Rytkönen, Harri Siiskonen, Seppo Sivonen
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University of Joensuu
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PDF
Date
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1983
Language
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English and Finnish
Archives
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Finland
Harri Siiskonen
Joensuu
Martti Eirola
Missionary
Ovamboland
Seppo Rytkönen
Seppo Sivonen
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/0eb953507a5d56b99497417e8a6aadd1.pdf
71296612d3d28a100e868df55461ad83
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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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Oudosta Kulkijasta Ihmiseksi: Suomalainen bushmannilähetystyö ja sen välittämä kuva bushmanneista vuosina 1950–1985
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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 Namibia and on the image of Bushmen conveyed by it. The encounter of the cultures gave rise to new elements of the Bushman way of life that are partly based on the tradition of the encounter of cultures in the area and on the requirements of the local natural conditions. This helped to give the Bushmen the strength to resist acculturation, and the meeting of cultures brought regular elements, which I have called the borderline culture, to the outskirts of the missionary stations. Increased information reduces uncertainty. This fact began to come to surface in the 1950s in the descriptions of Bushmen by Finnish nurses in Kavango in which the emotions of fear, sympathy and care were present. The pressures for missionary work among the Bushmen towards the end of the 1950s broke the old image of Bushmen. In eastern Ovambo and Kavango, the missionary work among Bushmen which was expanding in the 1960s made the image of Bushmen a more everyday matter in the emerging borderline culture, in which it was typical to associate the image of the Bushman to work and success at work. The missionaries did not yet quite understand the life of the Bushmen, although they were clearly interested in it. They tried to dictate the conditions for the encounter in the 1960s in accordance with the old ideology of missionary work. Thus the 1960s was the era of a Bushman image that was controlled by the preachers who tried to defend the justification and methods of missionary work. The breaking of the language barrier was an important factor on the way to the next change in the image of Bushmen which was seen clearly in the borderline culture which was established in the 1970s. Language meant improved and more profound information and therefore confidential relationships between the missionaries and the Bushmen. The understanding of ethnic cultures improved in general. The new ideals were partly due to the strivings for independence in the area and to more general international pressures in which mission and colonialism were subjected to criticism. The borderline culture had been established, and the life of Bushmen was felt to be part of everyday life. The interest of the missionaries in the Bushmen’s way of life was increased. In the early 80s, the image of the Bushman had become much more diversified and uniform. The Bushman way of life was known quite well, although based on the description of a few missionaries only. As a consequence of the Namibian Civil War, the work of the Finnish missionaries ended in the stations in Ovambo, but the work continued in the form of developmental aid in Kavango. The last image of the Bushmen there was given by the quiet missionaries, the nurses, just like in the early stages in the early 1950s. The concerns over care and everyday nursing were common in their descriptions, but the Bushmen were not any longer strange wanderers in the forest but familiar people in a borderline culture."
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Teuvo Raiskio
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Acta Universitatis Ouluensis (Oulu University)
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PDF
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1997
Language
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Finnish
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http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/isbn9514246918.pdf
Bushman
Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Finland
Finnish Missionary Society
Harri Siiskonen
Images
Kavango
liberation struggle
Missionary
nurses
Oulu
Ovamboland
Religion
Representation
San
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/50d82426c65eb204be731781ec7ea349.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.
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Fertility, Mortality, and Migration in Subsaharan Africa: The Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia, 1925-90
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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 post Second World War censuses. In north Namibia the availability of continuous series of parish record data since the 1920s offer excellent possibilities to study population development on a regional level by primary sources. In this study fertility, mortality and internal migration in north Namibia among the Christian population since the mid 1920s to the 1990s is analyzed.
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Veijo Notkola & Harri Siiskonen
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Palgrave Macmillan
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© Veijo Notkola and Harri Siiskonen 2000
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PDF
Date
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2000
Language
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English
Demographics
Fertility
Finland
Harri Siiskonen
Migration
Ovamboland
Veijo Notkola