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Author : Lovisa T. Nampala
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 9783908193166
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Aawambo Kingdoms, History and Cultural Change written by Lovisa T. Nampala and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leila Koivunen
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
ISBN 13 : 9518588872
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870–1990 written by Leila Koivunen and published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection re-examines the long history of Finnish-Namibian relations through the lens of colonialism without colonies as well as anti-colonialism. The book argues that although Finland never acquired colonies, Namibia was once treated in the areas of culture and knowledge formation in a manner now recognised as colonial. Namibian people’s ways of being in the world was transformed when the Finnish Missionary Society started its work in Owambo in 1870 and introduced Christianity and European modes of education, medicine, material culture and social practices. In time, cultural colonialism faded and during the Namibian struggle for independence from South African rule in 1966–1990 Finns took an actively anti-colonial approach. The book was written as a collaborative effort of Namibian, Finnish and South African scholars.
Author : Minette Mans
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3905758830
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Changing Faces of Aawambo Musical Arts written by Minette Mans and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a peoples’ music reflect their history, their occupations, cultural beliefs and values? These are the core questions that this book addresses in rela-tion to the Aawambo people of Namibia. The author brings to the fore the nuanced views of different people, describing their personal musical experiences – past as well as present. This is the first time that the music and stories of contemporary Namibian musicians is shared alongside those of the elderly. Similarly, it is the first time that some of the traditional Aawambo dances are analysed and described, abundantly illustrated with colourful photographs and several songs. Based on years of personal research, this book will appeal to research scholars, students and other interested readers alike, since its style is accessible but detailed, personal yet objective.
Author : Thomas Laely
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839443814
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe written by Thomas Laely and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects. This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice.
Author : Marion Wallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019751393X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book History of Namibia written by Marion Wallace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule--and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of Namibia in two decades, provides a fresh synthesis of these events, and of the much longer pre-colonial period. A History of Namibia opens with a chapter by John Kinahan covering the evidence of human activity in Namibia from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and for the first time making a synthesis of current archaeological research widely available to non-specialists. In subsequent chapters, Marion Wallace weaves together the most up-to-date academic research (in English and German) on Namibian history, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. She explores histories of migration, production and power in the pre-colonial period, the changes triggered by European expansion, and the dynamics of the period of formal colonialism. The coverage of German rule includes a full chapter on the genocide of 1904-8. Here, Wallace outlines the history and historiography of the wars fought in central and southern Namibia, and the subsequent mass imprisonment of defeated Africans in concentration camps. The final two chapters analyse the period of African nationalism, apartheid and war between 1946 and 1990. The book's conclusion looks briefly at the development of Namibia in the two decades since independence. A History of Namibia provides an invaluable introduction and reference source to the past of a country that is often neglected, despite its significance in the history of the region and, indeed, for that of European colonialism and international relations. It makes accessible the latest research on the country, illuminates current controversies, puts forward new insights, and suggests future directions for research. The book's extensive bibliography adds to its usefulness for scholar and general reader alike.
Author : Lovisa Tegelela Nampala
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3906927474
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 written by Lovisa Tegelela Nampala and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most research on the migrant labour system in Namibia under South African colonial rule emphasises its dehumanising aspects. In a complete contrast, this study highlights the social and ritual resources that contract workers and their families in colonial Ovamboland mobilised to provide forms of support and connection across great distances and absences. Based on extensive oral research, this study peels back the layers of intangible infrastructure that sustained migrant workers through all the stages of their contract, including observances around workplace deaths. This thesis vividly demonstrates the persistence of older practices that sustained the bonds of life, fellowship and family under stress, as well as adaptation to new colonial system such as the postal system.
Author : Giorgio Miescher
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 9783905758092
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Posters in Action written by Giorgio Miescher and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor L. Tonchi
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879905
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Namibia written by Victor L. Tonchi and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal colonial suppression by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, repressive apartheid racialism throughout the 20th century, and a prolonged armed liberation struggle, Namibians had the chance to choose their own leaders, develop a democratic political process in a free society, and to bring economic development and greater equity to their country. The Historical Dictionary of Namibia covers the history of Namibia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Namibia.
Author : Gregor Dobler
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3905758407
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland written by Gregor Dobler and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the history of trade and of traders as its subject matter, this book offers the first economic history of northern Namibia during the twentieth century. It traces Namibia’s way from a rural, largely self-relying society into a globalised economy of consumption. This transformation built on colonial economic activities, but it was crucially shaped by local traders, a new social elite emerging during the 1950s and 1960s. Becoming a trader was one of the few possibilities for black Namibians to gain monetary income at home. It was a pathway out of migrant labour, to new status in the local society and often to prosperity. Politically, most traders occupied a middle ground: content of their own social position, but intent on political emancipation from colonial rule. Economically, their energy and business acumen transformed northern Namibia into an increasingly urban consumer society. The development path they chose, however, depended too much on the colonial reserve economy to remain sustainable after 1990. Their legacy still shapes spatial and social structures in northern Namibia, but most traders’ businesses have today closed down. By telling the history of the rise and decline of traders and trade in northern Namibia, this book is thus also a reflection on the conundrums of economic development under conditions of structural inequality.
Author : Patricia Hayes
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446886
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Ambivalent written by Patricia Hayes and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography—and with visibility more generally—in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent‘s contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories. Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson
Author : Susann Baller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317965868
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Global Perspectives on Football in Africa written by Susann Baller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa has turned into a perfect example of the visual dimensions of football. Stadiums have been built and marketed as tourist attractions, mass media and internet platforms are advertising South African cities and venues, logos and emblems are displayed and celebrated, exhibitions are organised in museums world-wide. This book explores the social, cultural and political role of football in Africa by focusing on the issue of its visibility and invisibility. The contributions consider the history and present of football in different parts of Africa. They examine historical and recent pictures and images of football and football players, as well as places and spaces of their production and perception. They analyse the visual dimensions expressed in sports infrastructure, football media-scapes, and in expressive and material arts. This book thus contributes to the growing interest in football in Africa by exploring a new field of research into sports. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Author : Michael Akuupa
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 3905758695
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia written by Michael Akuupa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia addresses the challenges of creating a national culture in the context of a historical legacy that has emphasised ethnic diversity. The state-sponsored Annual National Culture Festival (ANCF) focuses on the Kavango region in north-eastern Namibia. Akuupa critically examines the notion of Kavango-ness as a colonial construct and its subsequent reconstitution and appropriation. He analyses the way in which cultural representations are produced by local people in the postcolonial African context of nation building and national reconciliation by bringing visions of cosmopolitanism and modernity into critical dialogue with the colonial past. Competing cultural festivals are used as celebratory social spaces in which performers and local people participate whilst negotiating a sense of national belonging in an ongoing tension between the need to celebrate diversity, yet strive for unity. This is the first study to discuss the comprehensive role played by those cultural festivals, which were organised in the ethnic homelands during the time Namibia fell under South African control.
Author : William Blakemore Lyon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311137503X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Forged in Genocide written by William Blakemore Lyon and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendi A. Haugh
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739188461
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia written by Wendi A. Haugh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Namibia gained its independence from South Africa in 1990, the new government began dismantling the divisive apartheid state and building a unified nation-state. What does this new nation look like from the perspective of ordinary citizens? In Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia, Wendi Haugh provides an ethnographic portrayal of the nation as imagined by people living in the former ethnic homeland of Ovamboland, with a particular focus on the lyrics of songs composed and performed by Catholic youth. The author argues that these youth draw on conflicting ideologies—hierarchical and egalitarian, nationalist and cosmopolitan—from multiple sources to construct a multi-faceted sense of national identity. She reveals how their vision of the nation—framed as neutrally national—is deeply rooted in specific local histories and cultures.
Author : Helen C. John
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399313
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion written by Helen C. John and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion, Helen C. John juxtaposes grassroots biblical interpretations from Owamboland, Namibia, with professional interpretations of selected New Testament texts, effectively demonstrating the capacity of grassroots interpretations to destabilise, challenge and nuance dominant professional interpretations.
Author : Runette Kruger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527523624
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Arts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a Modernized Africa written by Runette Kruger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then the concept of post-Africanism that would induce one to think along the lines of a globalized, cosmopolitan and essentially modernized Africa. The book captures leading trends and ideas that could help to protect, promote, develop and affirm indigenous knowledge and systems, whilst also making room for ideas that do not necessarily oppose IKS, but encourage the modernization (not Westernization) of Africa.
Author : Raita Merivirta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030806103
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Finnish Colonial Encounters written by Raita Merivirta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe – Finland. Although Finland never had overseas colonies, the authors argue that the country was undeniably involved in the colonial world, with Finns adopting ideologies and identities that cannot easily be disentangled from colonialism. This book explores the concepts of ‘colonial complicity’ and ‘colonialism without colonies’ in relation to Finland, a nation that was oppressed, but also itself complicit in colonialism. It offers insights into European colonialism on the margins of the continent and within a nation that has traditionally declared its innocence and exceptionalism. The book shows that Finns were active participants in various colonial contexts, including Southern Africa and Sápmi in the North. Demonstrating that colonialism was a common practice shared by all European nations, with or without formal colonies, this book provides essential reading for anyone interested in European colonial history. Chapters 1, 7 and 8 are available open access under a via link.springer.com.>
