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Author : Lyn Wadley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Big Elephant Shelter (Namibia)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112039610
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521633893
This book provides an archaeological synthesis of Southern Africa.
Author : Ralf Vogelsang,Barbara Eichhorn
Publisher : Heinrich Barth Institut
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 9783927688377
The main research focus of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 389 ACACIA (Arid Climate Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa), established at the University of Cologne in 1995, was the interaction between man and arid environments in Africa (KUPER et al. 2007). An important part was played by the diachronic examination of these processes and their development during the Holocene period in Northeast and Southwest Af ri ca. A longterm aim of the interdisciplinary research projects was the comparison of the Holocene settlement history and palaeoecology and the identification of common and divergent developments in both hemispheres. The volume at hand describes some results of the project B4: “Palaeoecology and the Late Holocene Occupation of Northern Namibia”. Regional focus is the northern part of the Kunene Region, the Opuwo District (former Kaokoland), a region in the arid limits between the Namib Desert and the savanna of the interior highlands. Three different scientific fields – namely prehistoric archaeology, archaeobotany and archaeozoology – cooperated in the fieldwork and analysis to reconstruct the prehistoric cultures and environment in the research area during the Holocene time period. Unfortunately, the archaeozoological results are still missing and not included in this book.
Author : Michael Bollig,Michael Schnegg,Hans-Peter Wotzka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857459091
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.
Author : Marion Wallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197513934
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 : Michael Bollig,Olaf Bubenzer,Ralf Vogelsang,Hans-Peter Wotzka
Publisher : Heinrich-Barth-Institut
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Peter J. Ucko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134843473
A unique volume that brings together contributors from all over the world to provide the first truly global perspective on archaeological theory, and tackle the crucial questions facing archaeology in the 1990s. Can one practice without theory?
Author : D. Margaret Avery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108480888
A comprehensive reference on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Sarala Krishnamurthy,Nelson Mlambo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783906927428
A rich collection of captivating and remarkable chapters, Writing Namibia Coming of Age presents research of senior academics as well as emerging scholars from Namibia. The book includes wide ranging topics in literature written in English and other Namibian languages, such as German, Afrikaans and Oshiwambo. Almost thirty years after independence, Namibia literature has come of age with new writers experimenting with different genres and varied aspects of literature. As an aesthetic object and social phenomenon, Namibian literature still fulfils the function of social conscience and as new writers emerge, there is ample demonstration that, pluri-vocal as they are, Namibian literary texts relate in a complex manner to the socio-historical trends shaping the country. The Namibian literary-critical tradition continues to paint some versions of Namibia and what we find in this new and highly welcome volume is a canvas of rich voices and perspectives that demonstrate an intricate diversity in terms of culture, language, and themes.
Author : Robert Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974182
The revised, updated version of this book includes an analysis of the sweeping political changes in South Africa since its original publcation in 1992. Other new material covers more theoretical issues and contemporary developments in scholarship, including a reconsideration of the film ?The Gods Must Be Crazy?; a discussion of ?expos thnography? and its attendant political/moral positioning; and an examination of the political situation in Namibia, with a close study of the near collapse of the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation.
Author : Bassey Andah,Alex Okpoko,Thurstan Shaw,Paul Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134679423
Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an 2xtraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this continent and to upset the picture inferred from historic written records. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, let alone its future.
Author : Mohamed Adhikari
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782387398
European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clashed with hunter-gatherers were particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves. The experience of aboriginal peoples in the settler colonies of southern Africa, Australia, North America, and Latin America bears this out. The frequency with which encounters of this kind resulted in the annihilation of forager societies raises the question of whether these conflicts were inherently genocidal, an issue not yet addressed by scholars in a systematic way.
Author : Harald Pager
Publisher : Heinrich-Barth-Institut
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : René T. J. Cappers
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922309
This volume contains fifteen papers given at the International Workshop on African Archaeobotany in Groningen in 2003. Several papers deal with the domestication history and related aspects of specific plants, including wheat (Triticum), rice (Oryza), pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), fig (Ficus), cotton (Gossypium), silk-cotton (Ceiba pentandra) and baobab (Adansonia digitata). Other contributions discuss the exploitation of woody vegetations, members of the sedge family (Cyperaceae) and the botanical composition of mummy garlands. Three papers present the subfossil plant remains from Egyptian sites: Pharaonic caravan routes through the Theban Desert, Predynastic Adaïma and Napatan to Islamic Qasr Ibrim. The last contribution presents an update inventory of the ancient plant remains present in the Agricultural Museum (Dokki, Cairo). The book covers a wide range of countries and includes Namibia, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Canary Isles, Libya and Egypt.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015028957887