Author: Gertrud Boden (ed.)
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783905758047
Category : !Xóõ (Sprache)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
!Qamtee Aa Xanya
Author: Gertrud Boden (ed.)
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783905758047
Category : !Xóõ (Sprache)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783905758047
Category : !Xóõ (Sprache)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Bushmen
Author: Alan Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.
Historical Dictionary of Namibia
Author: Victor L. Tonchi
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810879905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal colonial suppression by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, repressive apartheid racialism throughout the 20th century, and a prolonged armed liberation struggle, Namibians had the chance to choose their own leaders, develop a democratic political process in a free society, and to bring economic development and greater equity to their country. The Historical Dictionary of Namibia covers the history of Namibia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Namibia.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810879905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal colonial suppression by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, repressive apartheid racialism throughout the 20th century, and a prolonged armed liberation struggle, Namibians had the chance to choose their own leaders, develop a democratic political process in a free society, and to bring economic development and greater equity to their country. The Historical Dictionary of Namibia covers the history of Namibia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Namibia.
Environing Empire
Author: Martin Kalb
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800734573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800734573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.
Living in Worlds of Music
Author: Minette Mans
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048127068
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Informed by her in-depth ethnomusical knowledge, the result of detailed fieldwork, Mans’s book is about musical worlds and how we as people inhabit them. The book asserts that an understanding of our musical worlds can be a transformative educational tool that could have a significant role to play in multicultural music and arts education. She explores the way in which musical expression, with its myriad cultural variations, reveals much about identity and cultural norms, and shows how particular musical sounds are aesthetically related to these norms. The author goes further to suggest that similar systems can be detected across cultures, while each world remains colored by a distinctive soundscape. Mans also looks at the way each cultural soundscape is a symbolic manifestation of a society’s collective cognition, sorting musical behavior and sounds into clusters and patterns that fulfill each society’s requirements. She probes the fact that in today’s globalized and mobile world, as people move from one society to another, cross-cultural acts and hybrids result in a number of new aesthetics. Finally, in addition to three personal narratives by musicians from different continents, the author has invited scholars from diverse specializations and locations to comment on different sections of the book, opening up a critical dialogue with voices from different parts of the globe. Musical categorization, identity, values, aesthetic evaluation, creativity, curriculum, assessment and teacher education are some of the issues tackled in this manner.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048127068
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Informed by her in-depth ethnomusical knowledge, the result of detailed fieldwork, Mans’s book is about musical worlds and how we as people inhabit them. The book asserts that an understanding of our musical worlds can be a transformative educational tool that could have a significant role to play in multicultural music and arts education. She explores the way in which musical expression, with its myriad cultural variations, reveals much about identity and cultural norms, and shows how particular musical sounds are aesthetically related to these norms. The author goes further to suggest that similar systems can be detected across cultures, while each world remains colored by a distinctive soundscape. Mans also looks at the way each cultural soundscape is a symbolic manifestation of a society’s collective cognition, sorting musical behavior and sounds into clusters and patterns that fulfill each society’s requirements. She probes the fact that in today’s globalized and mobile world, as people move from one society to another, cross-cultural acts and hybrids result in a number of new aesthetics. Finally, in addition to three personal narratives by musicians from different continents, the author has invited scholars from diverse specializations and locations to comment on different sections of the book, opening up a critical dialogue with voices from different parts of the globe. Musical categorization, identity, values, aesthetic evaluation, creativity, curriculum, assessment and teacher education are some of the issues tackled in this manner.
A Current Bibliography on African Affairs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A Path Through Hard Grass
Author: Ruth Weiss
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 3905758547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all issues which affect the newly independent African countries. Peasants and national leaders in southern Africa Ruth Weiss met them all, travelling through Africa at a time when it was neither usual for a woman to do so, nor to report for economic media as she did. Her writing gained her the friendship of diverse and interesting people. In this book she offers us glimpses into some of her many long-nurtured friendships, with Kenneth Kaunda or Nadine Gordimer and many others. Her life-long quest for tolerance and understanding of different cultures shines through the many personalized stories which her astute eye and pen reveals in this book. As she put it, one never sheds the cultural vest donned at birth, but this should never stop one learning about and accepting other cultures.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 3905758547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all issues which affect the newly independent African countries. Peasants and national leaders in southern Africa Ruth Weiss met them all, travelling through Africa at a time when it was neither usual for a woman to do so, nor to report for economic media as she did. Her writing gained her the friendship of diverse and interesting people. In this book she offers us glimpses into some of her many long-nurtured friendships, with Kenneth Kaunda or Nadine Gordimer and many others. Her life-long quest for tolerance and understanding of different cultures shines through the many personalized stories which her astute eye and pen reveals in this book. As she put it, one never sheds the cultural vest donned at birth, but this should never stop one learning about and accepting other cultures.
African Posters
Author: Giorgio Miescher
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783905141825
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783905141825
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Glance at Our Africa
Author: Dag Henrichsen
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783905141696
Category : Namibia
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783905141696
Category : Namibia
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Protestant Churches and the Formation of Political Consciousness in Southern Mozambique (1930-1974)
Author: Teresa Cruz e Silva
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description