2000
X, 207 pp.
2 maps, numerous diagrams and tables, index
Text languages: German, English
The present volume contains six reports which have arisen from the work of the Collaborative Research Centre 389 Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa (1995–2007) at the University of Cologne/Germany. They provide the reader with an overview of the multiple aspects of the current research projects, especially in the sub-unit Land-Usage and Survival Strategies in Southwestern Africa.
The underlying thesis of the research conducted by the unit is that the study of the processes of adaptation to deteriorating environmental conditions taking place in southern Africa in recent times yields fundamental results that can be applied to the much older processes that took place in the desert areas of Northeastern Africa. In the course of the research projects the whole plethora of methodology and source material of ethno-history and current history is used on as wide a geographical and ethnical basis as possible.
CONTENTS
Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: Einführung
Michael Bollig: The Encapsulation of a Regional Trade Network – Northwest Namibia between the 1860s and 1950s
Andreas Eckl: Mit Kreuz, Gewehr und Handelskarre – Der Kavango 1903 im kolonialen Fokus
Jan-Bart Gewald: Herero and Missionaries – The Making of Historical Sources in the 1920s
Martina Gockel: Diversifizierung und politische Ökonomie der Damara im 19. Jahrhundert
Carmen Humboldt: Demographische Entwicklung und Ökonomie im Norden Namibias zwischen 1900 und 1930
Harald Sippel: Hendrik Witbooi und das Versäumnisurteil – Ein Herrscher der Nama begegnet deutschem Recht in Namibias kolonialer Frühzeit
Under these links you will find publications by the contributors and further studies of (colonial) history and missionary history in southern and eastern Africa:
