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Book The Barakwena of the Chetto Area

Download or read book The Barakwena of the Chetto Area written by Jeroen Diemer and published by Department of Cultural Anthropology University of Utrecht. This book was released on 1996 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regional Assessment of the Status of the San in Southern Africa

Download or read book Regional Assessment of the Status of the San in Southern Africa written by Legal Assistance Centre (Namibia) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South African Journal of Science

Download or read book South African Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bushman Myth

Download or read book The Bushman Myth written by Robert Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Witchdoctor s Bones

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa De Nikolits
  • Publisher : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781771331265
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Witchdoctor s Bones written by Lisa De Nikolits and published by Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. A group of tourists gather in Namibia. Some have come to holiday, others to murder. The travellers follow their tour guide Jono, a Zimbabwean historian and philosopher, from Cape Town into the Namib desert, learning ancient secrets of the Bushmen, the power of witchcraft and superstition, and even the origins of Nazi evil. A ragged bunch ranging from teenagers to retired couples, each member of the group faces a unique challenge as third world Africa is pitted against first world greed, thwarted desire and murderous intent. With the bones of consequence easily buried in the shifting sands, a holiday becomes a test of moral character. Unpredictable, flawed, fun-loving, courageous, bizarre, weak, kind-hearted and loathsome; the individuals in this novel exist beyond the page and into real life. Seamlessly weaving history and folklore into a plot of loss, passion and intrigue, the reader is kept informed and entertained as this psychological thriller unfolds.

Book The Power of Babel

Download or read book The Power of Babel written by Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguists estimate that there are currently nearly 2,000 languages in Africa, a staggering figure that is belied by the relatively few national languages. While African national politics, economics, and law are all conducted primarily in the colonial languages, the cultural life of the majority of citizens is conducted in a bewildering Babel of local and regional dialects, making language itself the center of debates over multiculturalism, gender studies, and social theory. In "The Power of Babel," the noted Africanist scholar Ali Mazrui and linguist Alamin Mazrui explore this vast territory of African language. "The Power of Babel" is one of the first comprehensive studies of the complex linguistic constellations of Africa. It draws on Ali Mazrui's earlier work in its examination of the "triple heritage" of African culture, in which indigenous, Islamic, and Western traditions compete for influence. In bringing the idea of the triple heritage to language, the Mazruis unravel issues of power, culture, and modernity as they are embedded in African linguistic life. The first section of the book takes a global perspective, exploring such issues as the Eurocentrism of much linguistic scholarship on Africa; part two takes an African perspective on a variety of issues from the linguistically disadvantaged position of women in Africa to the relation of language policy and democratic development; the third section presents a set of regional studies, centering on the Swahili language's exemplification of the triple heritage."The Power of Babel" unites empirical information with theories of nationalism and pluralism-among others-to offer the richest contextual account of African languages to date.

Book The Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Download or read book The Rights of Indigenous Peoples written by Phil ya Nangoloh and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miscast

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pippa Skotnes
  • Publisher : University of Cape Town Press (ZA)
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Miscast written by Pippa Skotnes and published by University of Cape Town Press (ZA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, eminent scholars explore the term 'Bushmen' and the relationships that gave rise to it, from the perspectives of anthropology, archaeology, comparative religion, literary studies, art history and musicology. Topics as diverse as trophy heads and museums, to the destruction of the Cape San, and appraisals of 19th-century photographic practices are examined.

Book Ruling Nature  Controlling People

Download or read book Ruling Nature Controlling People written by Luregn Lenggenhager and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research. They are also increasingly marked by militarisation and violence. In Ruling Nature, Controlling People, Luregn Lenggenhager shows that these features were also characteristic of South African rule over the Caprivi Strip region in North-Eastern Namibia, especially in the fields of forestry, fisheries and, ultimately, wildlife conservation. In the process, the increasingly internationalised war in the region from the late 1960s until Namibias independence in 1990 became intricately interlinked with contemporary nature conservation, ecology and economic development projects. By retracing such interdependencies, Lenggenhager provides a novel perspective from which to examine the history of a region which has until now barely entered the focus of historical research. He thereby highlights the enduring relevance of the supposedly peripheral Caprivi and its military, scientific and environmental histories for efforts to develop a deeper understanding of the ways in which apartheid South Africa exerted state power.

Book Guerrilla Nation

Download or read book Guerrilla Nation written by Michael Maclear and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Maclear was the first Western television journalist admitted into wartime North Vietnam. He found himself caught in a terrible contradiction: Hanoi didn't censor his reporting, but a nervous CBC distrusted him, the RCMP and the Pentagon interfered, and President Nixon said he was "duped."

Book On the Bridge of Goodbye

Download or read book On the Bridge of Goodbye written by David Robbins and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers Sa. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the southern African canvas of war and upheaval is the story of the famous San soldiers who fought first for the Portuguese in Angola, then for South Africa from bases in northern Namibia. When South Africa withdrew to make way for Namibian independence, many of these soldiers and their dependants came to South Africa where, after 13 years in tents, they moved into small houses on the outskirts of Kimberley. Beyond the bare bones of this story, remarkable in itself, lies a process of devastating displacement that has never fully been explored. Angolan and Caprivian communities had been wrenched apart by war, and for many neither reunification nor closure had been possible since the sudden Portuguese evacuation of Africa in the mid-1970s. David Robbins travelled with a small group of these discarded San soldiers on a journey into their respective pasts so that he could tell their stories. The result is "On the Bridge of Goodbye", a book rich in insight and emotion that culminates deep in the Angolan bush, and also in the very marrow of human loss and endurance.

Book Psychopharmacology Bulletin

Download or read book Psychopharmacology Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genetic Factors in Drug Therapy

Download or read book Genetic Factors in Drug Therapy written by David A. Price Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-12-16 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive work of reference to survey in depth the wide-ranging variability in the response of individuals to drugs.

Book Caprivi Regional Poverty Profile

Download or read book Caprivi Regional Poverty Profile written by Namibia. National Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daily Report

Download or read book Daily Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dental Anthropology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kurt W. Alt
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 3709174961
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book Dental Anthropology written by Kurt W. Alt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelley Saunders This book offers a welcome diversity of topics covering the broader subjects of teeth and the study of teeth by anthropologists. There is an impressive array of coverage here including the history of anthropological study of the teeth, morphology and structure, pathology and epidemiology, the relationship between nutrition, human behavior and the dentition, age and sex estimation from teeth, and geographic and genetic variation. Most chapter authors have provided thorough reviews of their subjects along with examples of recent analytical work and recommendations for future research. North American researchers should particularly appreciate the access to an extensive European literature cited in the individual chapter bibliographies. Physical anthropologists with even a passing interest in dental research should greet the publication of this book with pleasure since it adds to a growing list of books on how the study of teeth can tell us so much about past human populations. In addition to the archaeological applications, there is the forensic objective of dental anthropology which the editors refer to in their introduction which is dealt with in this volume. The chapters dealing with methods of sex determination, age estimation of juveniles and age estimation of adults using the teeth are exhaustive and exacting and of critical importance to both "osteoarchaeologists" and forensic anthropologists. Authors Liversidge, Herdeg and Rosing provide very clear guidelines for the use of dental formation standards in juvenile age estimation, recommendations that are so obviously necessary at this time.

Book Witchcraft and Policing

Download or read book Witchcraft and Policing written by Riekje Pelgrim and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: