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Gender and colonialism : a history of Kaoko in north-western Namibia, 1870s-1950s /
This book deals with colonialism on a Namibian periphery and considers both the German colonial period as well as South African rule in the country. The marginality of the Kaoko region within this colonial topography of power is analysed as a dynamic and fractured feature where power relations and c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel, Switzerland :
Basler Afrika Bibliographien,
2012.
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| Colección: | Basel Namibia studies series ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Basel Namibia Studies Series; Less is more? History and the Kaoko. An introduction; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I
- Gender and Conflict; 1. The expansion & collapse of Oorlam socio-economic hegemony in Kaoko; 1.1 Compulsory land and stock expropiation in Sesfontein; 1.2. Southern Kaoko at the outbreak of the war; 2. Male Business
- raiding economies and commercial trade; 2.1. The socio-economy of Kaoko in the second half of the 19th century; 2.2. The territorial anchorage of Oorlam rule; 2.3. Raiding, hunting and long-distance trade.
- 2.4. Evaluating Oorlam rule in Kaoko between the 1860s and the 1890s3. Facing the raiding economy; 3.1. Male mercenaries and collective strategies of survival; 3.2. Integration and political affiliation within Kaoko; 3.3. Ambivalences and alternatives in central Kaoko; 3.4. Migration and flight; 4. Rinderpest; 4.1. The Rinderpest and the collapse of Oorlam hegemony; 4.2. The Establishment of the Northern District; 4.3. Gender & conflict; Part II: Gender & Colonial Counter Insurgency; 1. The expeditions of Major Manning to Kaoko in 1917 and 1919; 1.1. Introduction.
- 1.2. South African military expedition and early administration in northern Namibia1.3. The reports of Major Manning
- narratives of counter insurgency; 2. Economic differentiation and re-pastoralization in aoko between 1910-1915; 2.1. The socio-economy of Kaoko in the early 1910s; 2.2. Southern Kaoko and entrenchments with the settler economy in the Outjo district; 3. Immigrations to Kaoko; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Negotiating residence
- Kakurukouje, Muhona Katiti and Vita Tom; 3.3. Increasing violence
- raiding and appropriation of resources; 3.4. Responses by the local communities.
- 4. Colonial administration and the constitution of political leadership4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Indirect rule
- building up political counterparts in the region; 4.3. Separating people; 4.4. Gender and counterinsurgency; Part III: Gender & Containment; 1. Introduction; 2. Forced removals in southern Kaoko in 1929; 2.1. African communities in southern Kaoko in the late 1920s; 2.2. The removals; 3. Enforcing reserves; 3.1. Imposing external borders; 3.2. Internal borders
- containing the 1923 reserves; 4. The north-western reserves within a Namibian perspective.
- 4.1. Pressures on the north-western pastoral economy4.2. Southern Kaoko and the separation of the northern areas from the Police Zone; 5. Fractured colonial administration
- mobility and containment; 5.1. Controlling the mobility of herds and of people; 5.2. Trade, dependent work, and participation in the cash economy; 5.3. Gender and the enforcement of reserves; Part IV: Gender & Colonial Law; 1. Introduction; 2. The elephant shooting case; 2.1. Reconstructing the case; 2.2. The murder case; 3. A place in-between
- colonial ambivalence and African friction in Kaoko Otavi.