Title Shaping the African savannah : from capitalist frontier to arid Eden in Namibia / Michael Bollig, University of Cologne

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 404 pages) : illustrations, maps Series African studies series ; 148 African studies series ; 148. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Doing Research on a Changing Savannah Landscape -- 1.1 New Materialism -- 1.2 The Environmental History Approach -- 1.3 The Political Ecology Approach -- 1.4 Doing Fieldwork in North-Western Namibia -- 1.5 Chapter Outline -- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure -- 2 The Prehistory of North-Western Namibia and the Emergence of Pastoralism 2.1 The Emergence of Pastoralism -- Model A: Pastoral Migration into the Kunene Region -- Model B: Pastoralisation as Regional Specialisation -- Model C: Mobility and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in a Pastoral-Forager Community -- 2.2 Interactions between Pastoralists and Foragers in the Pre-Colonial Kaokoveld -- 2.3 Forager Resource Utilisation in the Pre-Colonial Setting -- 2.4 Population, Settlement, and Human-Environment Relations before the 1870s -- 2.5 Violence and the Breakdown of the Foraging-cum-Pastoral Livelihood -- 3 Elephants and Humans in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 3.1 Elephants as Landscape Architects -- 3.2 Elephant-Environment Interaction in North-Western Namibia -- 3.3 The Demise of the Kaokoveld's Elephants: Commercial Hunting and the Ivory Trade in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century -- Commercial Elephant Hunting in North-Western Namibia by Humpata's Dorsland Trekker Community -- Commercial Hunting by Local African Hunters -- 3.4 Violent Regulation of Human-Environment Relations -- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s 4 Scientists, Cartographers, Photographers, and the Establishment of Western Knowledge of the Kaokoveld -- 4.1 Maps and Photographic Representations of the Landscape -- 4.2 Photographs and Texts -- 4.3 Scientific Expeditions into the Kaokoveld in South African Times -- 4.4 The Transmission of Knowledge -- 5 The Establishment of Colonial Administration and the Re-establishment of a Pastoral Livelihood -- 5.1 Re-immigration of Pastoralists into the Kaokoveld -- 5.2 Land Use in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 6 The Politics of Encapsulation: Game Protection, Instituting Borders, and Controlling Mobility -- 6.1 Game Protection and the Establishment of the Etosha Park in German Times -- 6.2 The Colonial Encapsulation of the Kaokoveld during South African Rule -- 6.3 The Control of Mobility -- The Southern Boundary -- The Ovamboland Border -- The Kunene Boundary -- Internal Borders -- 6.4 Controlling Trade -- Trade across the Kunene -- Trade to the South -- 6.5 Fighting Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia -- Fighting Mobility -- 6.6 From Hunting to Poaching -- 6.7 Combating Veld Fires Summary "The African Studies series, founded in 1968, is a prestigious series of monographs, general surveys, and textbooks on Africa covering history, political science, anthropology, economics, and ecological and environmental issues. The series seeks to publish work by senior scholars as well as the best new research"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2020) Subject Savannas -- Namibia -- History Savanna ecology -- Namibia -- History Human ecology -- Namibia -- History Human ecology Savanna ecology Savannas Namibia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019060072 ISBN 9781108764025 1108764029 9781108809900 1108809901

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