Infrastructures Of Migrant Labour In Colonial Ovamboland 1915 To 1954

Author : Lovisa Tegelela Nampala
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783906927473

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Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 by Lovisa Tegelela Nampala Pdf

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 : William Blakemore Lyon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111375038

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Forged in Genocide by William Blakemore Lyon Pdf

Author : Julia Rensing,Lorena Rizzo,Wanda Rutishauser
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783906927312

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Sites of Contestation by Julia Rensing,Lorena Rizzo,Wanda Rutishauser Pdf

This book is a collection of essays written by emerging scholars at the University of Basel on the basis of their subjective encounters with a specific archival collection housed in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel. The Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection consists of around 8100 images, 750 audio recordings and numerous manuscripts, diaries and notes. The German couple conducted research on Namibian oral literatures and languages as they were spoken and performed across the country in the early 1950s. Based on in-depth engagement with the textual, visual and audio records assembled in this intricate collection, the authors of this book critically interrogated the implications of opening a colonial archive, exploring alternative ways of reading and understanding the historical material. As unique examples of close reading and listening, the essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine, ethnography, biography and fiction in colonial knowledge production.

Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488488

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Shaping the African Savannah by Michael Bollig Pdf

A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.

Author : Julia Rensing,Rizzo Lorena
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783906927329

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Sites of Contestation by Julia Rensing,Rizzo Lorena Pdf

This book is a collection of essays written by emerging scholars at the University of Basel on the basis of their subjective encounters with a specific archival collection housed in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel. The Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection consists of around 8100 images, 750 audio recordings and numerous manuscripts, diaries and notes. The German couple conducted research on Namibian oral literatures and languages as they were spoken and performed across the country in the early 1950s. Based on in-depth engagement with the textual, visual and audio records assembled in this intricate collection, the authors of this book critically interrogated the implications of opening a colonial archive, exploring alternative ways of reading and understanding the historical material. As unique examples of close reading and listening, the essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine, ethnography, biography and fiction in colonial knowledge production.

Author : G. Miescher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137118318

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Namibia's Red Line by G. Miescher Pdf

Based on archival sources and oral history, this book reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The process commenced with the establishment of a temporary veterinary defence line against rinderpest by the German colonial authorities in the late nineteenth century and ended with the construction of a continuous two-metre-high fence by the South African colonial government sixty years later. This 1250-kilometre fence divides northern from central Namibia even today. The book combines a macro and a micro-perspective and differentiates between cartographic and physical reality. The analysis explores both the colonial state's agency with regard to veterinary and settlement policies and the strategies of Africans and Europeans living close to the border. The analysis also includes the varying perceptions of individuals and populations who lived further north and south of the border and describes their experiences crossing the border as migrant workers, African traders, European settlers and colonial officials. The Red Line's history is understood as a gradual process of segregating livestock and people, and of constructing dichotomies of modern and traditional, healthy and sick, European and African.

Author : Jack Boulton
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783906927299

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Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It by Jack Boulton Pdf

Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It is a story of men, monsters and uranium in Swakopmund, a small coastal city in the west of Namibia. Founded by German settlers in the late nineteenth century, Swakopmund remains a popular holiday destination for Namibians and international visitors alike. How do young African men make their home in this peculiar town of pretty beaches and luxury hotels, a brutal colonial history and a large uranium mining industry? Are their close relations affected by global changes in the price of uranium? And how do we describe their life worlds which straddle many homes, neighbourhoods, and establishments – sometimes even existing beyond the limits of the post-colonial city? Employing a reflexive narrative and based on two year’s fieldwork, Jack Boulton explores the myriad ways in which intimacy develops and manifests for men in a city defined predominantly by racialised difference and local and global forces of inequality.

Author : Harri Siiskonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Angola
ISBN : UCAL:B3674462

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Trade and Socioeconomic Change in Ovamboland, 1850-1906 by Harri Siiskonen Pdf

Author : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107198326

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Africans by John Iliffe Pdf

An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.

Author : Minna Saarelma-Maunumaa
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789522228161

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Edhina Ekogidho – Names as Links by Minna Saarelma-Maunumaa Pdf

What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the long independence struggle affect personal naming, and what are the latest name-giving trends in Namibia? This study analyses the changes in the personal naming system of the Ambo people in Namibia over the last 120 years, starting from the year 1883 when the first Ambos received biblical and European names at baptism. The central factors in this process were the German and South African colonisation and European missionary work on the one hand, and the rise of African nationalism on the other hand. Eventually, this clash between African and European naming practices led to a new and dynamic naming system which includes elements of both African and European origin.

Author : Marion O'Callaghan
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015003952713

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Namibia by Marion O'Callaghan Pdf

UNESCO pub. Monograph on the social implications of Apartheid and its effects on culture and education in Namibia - reviews the background of the role of UN in namibia, and covers occupational structure and the position therein of African migrant workers and contract labour, the evolution of the educational system and African enrolment, etc. References and statistical tables.

Author : Tore Linné Eriksen,Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9171064478

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Norway and National Liberation in Southern Africa by Tore Linné Eriksen,Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Pdf

This book documents and analyses the involvement of Norway in the liberation struggle in Southern Africa. Apart from focussing on the formulation of official policies and the extensive cooperation with the liberation movements in the field of humanitarian assistance, mainly based on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs records, the study highlights the popular involvement and commitment to the struggle. Separate chapters are concerned with the churches, trade unions and solidarity movements, such as the Norwegian Council for Southern Africa and the Namibia Committee. The book also includes a case study on the battle for sanctions.The Study forms part of the Nordic Africa Institute's research and documentation project -National Liberation in Southern Africa: The Role of the Nordic Countries-.

Author : Ali, Abdulrahim,Thiam, Iba Der,Talib, Yusof A.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 9789231001321

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The Different aspects of Islamic culture by Ali, Abdulrahim,Thiam, Iba Der,Talib, Yusof A. Pdf

Islam in the World Today sheds light on the dynamics and practices of Muslim communities in contemporary societies across the world, by providing a rigorous analysis of their economic, political, socio-cultural and educational characteristics.--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112105110743

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Low-intensity Conflict in the Third World by Stephen Blank Pdf

A common thread ties together the five case studies of this book: the persistence with which the bilateral relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union continues to dominate American foreign and regional policies. These essays analyze the LIC environment in Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Stephen O. Murray,Will Roscoe
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438484112

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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands by Stephen O. Murray,Will Roscoe Pdf

Among the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity are absent or incidental is one of the oldest and most enduring. Historians, anthropologists, and many contemporary Africans alike have denied or overlooked African same-sex patterns or claimed that such patterns were introduced by Europeans or Arabs. In fact, same-sex love and nonbinary genders were and are widespread in Africa. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands documents the presence of this diversity in some fifty societies in every region of the continent south of the Sahara. Essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines explore institutionalized marriages between women, same-sex relations between men and boys in colonial work settings, mixed gender roles in east and west Africa, and the emergence of LGBTQ activism in South Africa, which became the first nation in the world to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Also included are oral histories, folklore, and translations of early ethnographic reports by German and French observers. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands was the first serious study of same-sex sexuality and gender diversity in Africa, and this edition includes a new foreword by Marc Epprecht that underscores the significance of the book for a new generation of African scholars, as well as reflections on the book's genesis by the late Stephen O. Murray. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Murray Hong Family Trust. Access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1714.