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| Title: | The Colonial Encapsulation of the North-Western Namibian Pastoral Economy |
| Author: | Bollig, Michael |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
| Volume: | 68 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 506-536 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Namibia South Africa |
| Subjects: | Himba pastoralists colonialism History and Exploration Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1161164 |
| Abstract: | Looking at historical transformations in Kaokoland, northwestern Namibia, between 1915 and 1960, the author traces the process of marginalization and encapsulation of the area's Himba pastoralists and shows that the recent mode of livestock production is the result of a historical process of transformation rather than of pristine adaptation to an arid environment. This process took place at different levels: newly defined borders inhibited spatial mobility; trade was severely hampered by colonial regulations; and forced inoculation campaigns, antipoaching drives and State-controlled labour recruitment conflicted with indigenous herd management. Having been enmeshed in interregional trade networks, commodity production and wage labour around 1900, the Himba were isolated by the South African government within a period of twenty years. Pastoralists who had diversified their assets during the previous fifty years and had taken the chance of a first wave of commercial penetration were thus forced back to subsistence herding. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. |
