The Poetics of Herero Song

The Poetics of Herero Song PDF Author: Rajmund Ohly
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Category : Folk literature, Herero
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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The Poetics of Herero Song

The Poetics of Herero Song PDF Author: Rajmund Ohly
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Category : Folk literature, Herero
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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The Poetics of Herero Song

The Poetics of Herero Song PDF Author: Rajmund Ohly
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Category : Folk literature, Herero
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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the poetic of the Herero Songs : an outline

the poetic of the Herero Songs : an outline PDF Author:
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Languages : en
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Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics

Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics PDF Author: Klaus Zimmermann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311040320X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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A lot of what we know about “exotic languages” is owed to the linguistic activities of missionaries. They had the languages put into writing, described their grammar and lexicon, and worked towards a standardization, which often came with Eurocentric manipulation. Colonial missionary work as intellectual (religious) conquest formed part of the Europeans' political colonial rule, although it sometimes went against the specific objectives of the official administration. In most cases, it did not help to stop (or even reinforced) the displacement and discrimination of those languages, despite oftentimes providing their very first (sometimes remarkable, sometimes incorrect) descriptions. This volume presents exemplary studies on Catholic and Protestant missionary linguistics, in the framework of the respective colonial situation and policies under Spanish, German, or British rule. The contributions cover colonial contexts in Latin America, Africa, and Asia across the centuries. They demonstrate how missionaries dealing with linguistic analyses and descriptions cooperated with colonial institutions and how their linguistic knowledge contributed to European domination.

Ozongombe mOmbazu ya Kaoko

Ozongombe mOmbazu ya Kaoko PDF Author: Jekura Uaurika Kavari
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9994557378
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Ozongombe mOmbazu ya Kaoko/Cattle Culture of the Kaoko Ovaherero honours indigenous Sanga/Nguni cattle and their cultural and agricultural significance to the Ovaherero and increasingly to other cattle-breeders. The book introduces Otjiherero vernacular names for a wide variety of hide colours and patterns, horn shapes and ear notches in cattle, illustrated with over 300 colour photographs and drawings which give it the practical value of a bilingual field guide. In depth information on the role of cattle in Ovaherero history and society, way of life, rites of passage, omens, taboos, worship, battle, and techniques of husbandry will interest students of agriculture, veterinary science and anthropology. The book also documents cultural concepts and practices inaccessible to the layperson and many urbanized Ovaherero, but which are still current among cattle-keepers in the isolated region of Kaokoland. This timely record preserves not only cultural information but language terms which otherwise could be lost within the coming generation. Even a brief glance through its pages will serve to show the wonderful richness of Ovaherero cattle culture.

Omiano vya Tjipangandjara

Omiano vya Tjipangandjara PDF Author: Kavari, Jekura Uaurika
Publisher: University of Namibia Press
ISBN: 9991642072
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Omiano vya Tjipangandjara: Otjiherero Proverbs and Idioms is a unique collection of linguistic and cultural significance. The author has collected over 150 proverbs and idioms from the Ovaherero community, particularly the Ovakaoko, in Namibia, and from various written sources. He encourages the use of these proverbs as a means of cultural enrichment, since younger speakers of Otjiherero tend to use and/or translate English or Afrikaans proverbs. Concise and extensively researched, this book distinguishes between proverbs and idioms; gives the literal English translation; the origin; general meaning; context; usage; and English equivalents.

African Landscapes

African Landscapes PDF Author: Michael Bollig
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387786821
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways that natural landscapes themselves are the product of historical and cultural processes. Most previous studies of the landscape selectively focused on either the natural sciences or the social sciences, but the research presented in African Landscapes bridges that gap. This work is unique in its interdisciplinary scope. Over the past twelve years, the contributors to this volume have participated in the collaborative research center ACACIA (Arid Climate Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa), which deals with the relationship between cultural processes and ecological dynamics in Africa’s arid areas. The case studies presented here come from mainly Sahara/Sahel and southwestern Africa, and are all linked to broader discussions on the concept of landscape, and themes of cultural, anthropological, geographical, botanical, sociological, and archaeological interest. The contributions in this work are enhanced by full color photographs that put the discussion in context visually.

Herero Ecology

Herero Ecology PDF Author: Rajmund Ohly
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Category : Ethnoecology
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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The Shade of New Leaves

The Shade of New Leaves PDF Author: Manfred O. Hinz
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825892838
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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"Omudile muua ohapo; epangelo liua ohamba". Freely translated, this proverb of the Ovakwanyama of northern Namibia means: "New leaves produce a good shade; the laws of a king are always as good as new". The proverb paints a picture of wisdom to express the dialectical relationship between continuity and change in customary law. Since royal orders are supposed not to change from one king to the next, they are always as good as new, reads the explanatory note to the proverb by the anthropologist Loeb, who recorded the proverb. Traditional authority is like a tree standing on its roots, rooted in the tradition created by the ancestors of the ruler and the community. These roots remain firm, stable and unchanged, not so the concrete manifestation of authority that changes and responds to changes of the environment. This makes that new leaves are produced by the rooted tree. The new leaves are new and old. They are old, because in structure, colour and their capacity to protect by giving shade, they are more or less like the leaves of last year and the year before; they are new because they react to the challenge of seasons. The Shade of New Leaves emerged out of an international conference on the living reality of customary law and traditional governance held in Windhoek in 2004. The conference was organised by the Centre for Applied Social Sciences and the Human Rights and Documentation Centre, both affiliated to the Faculty of Law of the University of Namibia, in co-operation with the Law Departments of the Universities of Bremen, Germany, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The contributions to this book are grouped into six parts: Part 1: Legal pluralism, traditional governance and the challenge of the democratic constitutional order * Part 2: Traditional administration of justice revisited * Part 3: Ascertaining customary law: prerequisite of good governance in traditional authority * Part 4: Legal philosophy, African philosophy and African jurisprudence * Part 5: Research, training and teaching of customary law * Part 6: Afterthoughts

Land and Landscape in Herero Oral Culture

Land and Landscape in Herero Oral Culture PDF Author: Larissa Förster
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Category : Herero (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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