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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Herero"”.
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Kinship and family life of the Herero
… and having children in marriage is ideal for Herero women, but regardless of that most Herero women give birth to out-of-wedlock children. Children are highly valued among the Herero, and motherhood is essential for womanhood. Because the age of marriage is high and for many women marriage is …
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Ethnography of 'Herero Mall' (Windhoek) as a post-apartheid social space
… to locate the social meaning of the so-called ‘Herero Mall’ in the heart of Katutura. Providing an important means of economic survival, ‘Herero Mall’ is a solace to the urban subaltern, to invoke Gayatri Spivak’s concept. Most traders if not all are unable to join formal employment because of …
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An economic and social history of the Herero of Namibia, 1915-1946
Bibliography: pages 421-450.
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Politics of reparations: unravelling the power relations in the Herero/Nama genocide reparations claims
The Herero/Nama Genocide (1904-1908) under German colonialism in Namibia is the first genocide of the twentieth century and has stirred debates around reparations for historical injustices. Reparative Justice has evolved into a victim-centric pillar of justice, in which perpetrators are legally and …
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Reparations under international law: A case study of the Herero/ Nama claims for reparations for genocide committed by the German Government
The Herero and Nama genocide perpetrated by the German colonial authorities, under the command of General Von Trotha has left a controversial legacy in Namibia. It was during the period of 1904-07 when an estimated 80 percent of Hereros and 50 percent of Namas perished in their quest to reclaim …
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Negotiating meaning and change in space and material culture : an ethno-archaeological study among semi-nomadic Himba and Herero herders in north-western Namibia
… and political changes taking place in Himba and Herero settlements in far north-western Namibia. A starting point is that changes in the organization of space and use of material culture cannot be understood as merely expressing changed social and economic conditions and/or changed value systems. …
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Reconstruction of atrocities through fiction in Namibia: An evaluation of Mari Serebrov's Mama Namibia and Lauri Kabuitsile's the scattering
… who experienced trauma during the 20th century Herero Genocide as presented in the two selected Namibian novels in English. The purpose of the study was to explore how traumatic avenues are chronicled in fiction through the two selected novels and to investigate how fiction portrays trauma and …
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An explorative action research study toward the design of a digital knowledge organisation as part of an indigenous knowledge management system with a Herero community
Indigenous Knowledge Management Systems are being developed in order to preserve, process and retrieve knowledge. Unfortunately, most of the systems available do not take into account the different cultural ways of organising and sharing indigenous knowledge. Current technology trends and …
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Decolonising the Informal: Discourse, Everyday Life, and the Politics of Urbanisation in Windhoek, Namibia
… based on participant observation at the “Herero Mall” ‘informal market’ in Windhoek. Thirdly, I give account of my involvement in a co-productive spatial intervention at the Herero Mall with local traders. Through these three approaches, I found that the temporal overlap between Namibia’s …
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A cognitive stylistics study of the Nama-Herero genocide in Kubuitsile’s the scattering, Utley’s lie of the land, Tjingaete’s the weeping graves of our ancestors and Van Den Berg’s parts unknown
This study examined four Namibian Nama-Herero literary texts about the genocide in Namibia through the application of the cognitive stylistics theory as a framework for analysis. These are namely, Lauri Kubuitsile’s The Scattering (2016), Jaspar D. Utley’s Lie of the Land (2017), Rukee Tjingaete’s …
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'Mastering the genocide narrative' : an analysis of the Rwandan Patriotic Front's official narrative of the Rwandan genocide
… or Shoah, the Armenian Genocide and the Herero Genocide. Once constructed, this framework of analysis will then be applied to the official narrative of the RPF. The research design is thus a theoretical case study of sorts, with the theory distilled from scholarly literature on [a] and …
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Under the hanging tree: everyday life and historical memory in Central Namibia
… have the power to deepen our understanding of Herero historiography, showing how matrilineal descent, cattle practice, and ancestor veneration infuse colonial trauma with meaning and continuity. Methodologically, the project combines ethnography with creative practice: participatory filmmaking …
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Anthropomorphism and social issues in selected Namibian children’s literature
… the Khoisan people, the Ovambo, the Kavango the Herero, Nama and the Damara. The stories are of a folklore nature; thus, they tell the stories from the cultural perspectives of the Namibian people. The study aimed to explore how anthropomorphism as a literary technique is used to communicate …
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The politics of memorialisation in Namibia: reading the Independence Memorial Museum
… site, a significant landmark with regards to the Herero and Nama genocide, had remained effectively untouched both pre and post-independence as the city built up around several German colonial monuments. In order to understand why such a change in the memorial landscape would occur, and in a …
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Isolation, identification and characterization of Cleome Gynandra L. bacterial seed endophytes from Northern Namibia
… C. gynandra (Ombidi in Oshiwambo; Ombowa in Herero; Gomabeb in Damara/Nama) is a neglected droughttolerant wild annual crop spread in semi-arid regions of Northern Namibia. This plant has shown great potential in agronomy, climate adaptation, economy and traditional medicine, making it stand …
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Richard Thurnwald and the Transimperial Fate of German Colonial Ethnology, 1896-1926
… War One. After the brutal suppression of the Herero Rebellion in Southwest Africa (c. 1906), Germany faced rising international scrutiny over her capacity to economically develop her colonies while simultaneously executing the *mission civilisatrice* – the inherent contradiction within the …
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Proto-Sotho and the Sotho-Group
… Bantu family, those of Congo, Damara (i.e. Herero), Sechuana and "Kafir" It is noteworthy that in this work he classified Sotho under the "Sechuana"^ group, from which it could be implied that Sotho was either a dialect or a separate Cluster of the Tswana group. This is the first discernible …
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Healing the crippled hand: tourism and community-based tourism as sustainable forms of land use and development in Eastern Tsumkwe, Namibia
… of Resettlement and Rehabilitation (MLRR) Herero Repatriation Programme in the adjacent Garn area, where pastoralist Hereros from Botswana are being resettled. The decimation by the Herero of wildlife as the animals enter from Nyae Nyae into the Garn area as part of their migratory patterns …
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A forensic anthropological investigation of skeletal remains recovered from a 1000 year old archaeological site in North Western Namibia
… is a group similar or ancestral to the modern Herero of Namibia. The exact nature and circumstance surrounding the cause of death is unknown. Based on the extent of skeletal injuries, it is likely that they received peri-mortem blunt force trauma and post-mortem trauma after death by being …