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| Title: | Himba Epochs |
| Author: | Gibson, Gordon D. |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Periodical: | History in Africa |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Pages: | 67-121 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Namibia |
| Subjects: | Himba chronology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171580 |
| Abstract: | The Himba, a pastoral Bantu people of southwestern Africa, have developed a quasiannual chronology based upon important episodes and occasional conditions of the region in which they live. The present paper deals with the nature of the Himba epochal chronology and the method employed for correlating it with the years of the Christian calendar. The author tabulates all the epoch names he has been able to fix with some degree of certainty in time, along with the evidence that serves to document them and to establish their proper order. Map, notes, ref., tab. |
