[PDF] Infrastructures Of Migrant Labour In Colonial Ovamboland 1915 To 1954 eBook

Author : Lovisa Nampala
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2023-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3906927482

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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 : Lovisa Tegelela Nampala
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3906927474

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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 : 344 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2024-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 3111374912

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Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy during and as a result of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1908). It posits that Namibia, far from being a colonial backwater of the early 20th century, became highly integrated into the labor flows and economies of West and Southern Africa, and even for a time was one of the most sought-after regions for African migrants because of relatively high wages and numerous opportunities resulting from the war’s demographic devastation paired with an economic frenzy following the discovery of diamonds. In highlighting the life stories of migrants in Namibia from regions as diverse as the Kru coast of Liberia, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and the Ovambo polities of Northern Namibia, this work integrates micro-history into larger African continental trends. Building off of written sources from migrants themselves and utilising the Namibian Worker Database constructed for this project, this book explores the lives of workers in early colonial Namibia in a way that has hereto not been attempted.

Author : Julia Rensing
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3906927318

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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 : 41,80 MB
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 110848848X

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

Author : Julia Rensing
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 3906927326

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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 : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107198321

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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 : 13,86 MB
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9522228168

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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 : Stephen Blank
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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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.