People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in Southwestern Africa / edited by Michael Bollig and Jan-Bart Gewald.

Papers originally presented at a conference held in Siegburg, Germany, in 2000.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: I. People, Cattle and Land - An Introduction -- People, Cattle and Land - Transformations of Pastoral Society -- Michael Bollig and Jan-Bart Gewald 3 -- II. The Emergence of Pastoral Strategies and Social Developments -- in Southwestern Africa -- The Origins of Pastoralism in Namibia -- Andrew B. Smith 55 -- Archaeological Evidence from the Early Pastoral Period -- in North-west Namibia -- Thomas Frank 77 -- Picturing Ecology through Animal Metaphorism - -- Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and the First Pastro-Foragers in Namibia -- Tilman Lenssen-Erz 95 -- The Language History of Herero as a Source of Ethnohistorical -- Interpretations -- Wilhelm J. G. Mdhlig 119 -- III. Formations and Transformations of Pastoral Societies -- Ozongombe, Omavita and Ozondjembo - -- The Process of (Re-)Pastoralization amongst Herero in Pre-colonial -- 19" Century Central Namibia -- Dag Henrichsen 149 -- Colonization, Genocide and Resurgence: -- The Herero of Namibia 1890-1933 -- Jan-Bart Gewald 187 -- A Sign of the Times: Samuel Maharero's Body and the Legitimation -- of Herero Leadership -- Hildi Hendrickson -- From Communal Pastures to Enclosures - -- The Development of Land Tenure in Herero Reserves -- Wolfgang Werner -- IV. The Economic Organization of Livestock Husbandry -- in the 20' Century -- Production and Exchange among the Himba of Northwestern Namibia -- Michael Bollig -- Drought and Mureti's Grave: The "we/us" Boundaries between -- Kaokolanders and the People of Okakarara Area in the Early 1980s -- Itaru Ohta -- "At the End of the Day We Will Fight" - -- Communal Land Rights and 'Illegal Fencing' in Otjozondjupa Region -- Ute Stahl -- Cry for Development: The Kaoko Development League (KDL) - -- Colonial Legacies and the Epupa Debate in Kaoko -- Giorgio Miescher -- V. Conceptualizations of Environment and Society -- In Between House and Cattle Pen - Moving Spaces in Himbaland -- Steven van Wolputte -- Language, Culture and Environment - -- The Conceptualization of Herero Cattle Terms -- Andreas Eckl -- Classifying the Animal Kingdom: Are the Himba Naturalists? -- (Drawing a Lesson from the Case of the Hyena) -- David Crandall -- The Politics of Death: Demarcating Land through Ritual Performance -- Christofer Wirnlof -- VI. Maintaining Pastoral Identities on the Periphery -- Assembling and Resembling - -- Herero History in Vaalgras, Southern Namibia -- Jeremy Silvester -- On the Other Side of the Frontier - -- Relations between Herero and 'Bushmen' -- Thomas Widlok -- Encapsulation, Prosperity and Hunger amongst the Kuvale -- of Southern Angola -- Ruy Duarte de Carvalho -- List of Contributors.