Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

Author: John T. Friedman

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0857450913

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In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.

Popular Resistance and the Roots of Nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966
Popular Resistance and the Roots of Nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966

Author: Tony Emmett

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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The book explores the social forces that shaped the development of a movement of national liberation in Namibia. It provides the original analyses of the Bondelswarts and Rehoboth rebellions, the Garveyite and troop movements, the contract labour system and the formation of the modern African parties, SWAPO and SWANU.

South Africa's Dreams
South Africa's Dreams

Author: Robert J. Gordon

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-02-05

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1789209757

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In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. Exposing the role that anthropologists played, this book analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created. Understanding these practices and the ways in which South Africa’s experiences in Namibia influenced later policy at home is also critically evaluated, as is the matter of adjudicating the many South African anthropologists who supported the regime.

Ovambo Politics in the Twentieth Century
Ovambo Politics in the Twentieth Century

Author: Allan D. Cooper

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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Ovambo Politics in the Twentieth Century offers a paradigm shift from how studies typically treat the colonization of Africa. Using archival documentation from government and industry sources, Cooper offers a detailed historical analysis of the seven major communities comprising the Ovambo- Namibia's largest ethnic group. His examination reveals that these Ovambo communities engaged in competitive political relations with each other throughout the German colonial era as well as the subsequent occupation of territory by the white minority government of South Africa.

The Kavango Peoples
The Kavango Peoples

Author: Gordon D. Gibson

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Published: 1981

Total Pages: 312

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This is a synthesis of anthropological studies of the people living along the Namibian section of the Okavango River, in which the authors have supplemented their own field research with other source material. After a general introduction, consecutive chapters discuss each of the five "tribes", using the same comparative framework of presentation. Although historical change is regularly noted in passing, the essays are largely written in a timeless present, sometimes even when early sources are cited. Coverage of the peasant economy is variable, but the scattered factual detail is useful given the almost total absence of modern field studies. (Eriksen/Moorsom 1989).