Gender and Colonialism : A History of Kaoko in North-Western Namibia 1870s�1950s.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Basel Namibia Studies Series -- Less is more? History and the Kaoko. An introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I - Gender and Conflict -- 1. The expansion &amp -- collapse of Oorlam socio-economic hegemony in Kaoko -- 1.1 Compulsory land and stock expropiation in Sesfontein -- 1.2. Southern Kaoko at the outbreak of the war -- 2. Male Business - raiding economies and commercial trade -- 2.1. The socio-economy of Kaoko in the second half of the 19th century -- 2.2. The territorial anchorage of Oorlam rule -- 2.3. Raiding, hunting and long-distance trade -- 2.4. Evaluating Oorlam rule in Kaoko between the 1860s and the 1890s -- 3. Facing the raiding economy -- 3.1. Male mercenaries and collective strategies of survival -- 3.2. Integration and political affiliation within Kaoko -- 3.3. Ambivalences and alternatives in central Kaoko -- 3.4. Migration and flight -- 4. Rinderpest -- 4.1. The Rinderpest and the collapse of Oorlam hegemony -- 4.2. The Establishment of the Northern District -- 4.3. Gender &amp -- conflict -- Part II: Gender &amp -- Colonial Counter Insurgency -- 1. The expeditions of Major Manning to Kaoko in 1917 and 1919 -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. South African military expedition and early administration in northern Namibia -- 1.3. The reports of Major Manning - narratives of counter insurgency -- 2. Economic differentiation and re-pastoralization in aoko between 1910-1915 -- 2.1. The socio-economy of Kaoko in the early 1910s -- 2.2. Southern Kaoko and entrenchments with the settler economy in the Outjo district -- 3. Immigrations to Kaoko -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Negotiating residence - Kakurukouje, Muhona Katiti and Vita Tom -- 3.3. Increasing violence - raiding and appropriation of resources -- 3.4. Responses by the local communities.

4. Colonial administration and the constitution of political leadership -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Indirect rule - building up political counterparts in the region -- 4.3. Separating people -- 4.4. Gender and counterinsurgency -- Part III: Gender &amp -- Containment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forced removals in southern Kaoko in 1929 -- 2.1. African communities in southern Kaoko in the late 1920s -- 2.2. The removals -- 3. Enforcing reserves -- 3.1. Imposing external borders -- 3.2. Internal borders - containing the 1923 reserves -- 4. The north-western reserves within a Namibian perspective -- 4.1. Pressures on the north-western pastoral economy -- 4.2. Southern Kaoko and the separation of the northern areas from the Police Zone -- 5. Fractured colonial administration - mobility and containment -- 5.1. Controlling the mobility of herds and of people -- 5.2. Trade, dependent work, and participation in the cash economy -- 5.3. Gender and the enforcement of reserves -- Part IV: Gender &amp -- Colonial Law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The elephant shooting case -- 2.1. Reconstructing the case -- 2.2. The murder case -- 3. A place in-between - colonial ambivalence and African friction in Kaoko Otavi -- 3.1. Kaoko Otavi at the beginning of the 20th century -- 3.2. Game and entangled hunting economies -- 4. Colonial narratives - the case records and the problem of indigenous voices -- 4.1. Colonial jurisdiction and the coming of the law -- 4.2. Recorded statements - exploring the legal narrative -- 5. Negotiating gender -- 5.1. Challenges to male authority -- 5.2. Marginalizing female agency -- 5.3. Gender &amp -- colonial law -- Part V: Gender &amp -- the Technologies of Empire -- 1. The inoculation campaign against lungsickness in Kaoko in 1938 -- 1.1. The narrative of disease eradication -- 1.2. Inoculation, the pastoral economy and the colonial state.

2. A broader plan of disease management -- 2.1. Expansion to the northern areas -- 3. Spreading a disease - fissures and failures of the inoculation campaigns -- 3.1. Evaluating the lungsickness campaign of 1938 -- 3.2. Second lungsickness inoculation campaign of 1939 -- 4. Technologies of empire -- 4.1. The constitution of the colonial state in Kaoko -- 4.2. Undermining the pastoral economy -- 4.3. Gender and the technologies of empire -- Part VI: Gender &amp -- Visuality. -- Colonial Photography in Kaoko in the first half of the 20th century -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Colonial photography in Southern Africa and Namibia -- 1.2. Colonial photography in Kaoko -- 2. Central Kaoko in the late 1940s and early 1950s -- 2.1. Nuancing colonial spatiality and indirect rule in Kaoko -- 2.2. Economic isolation and contested trade -- 3. The photographs of Heinz Roth -- 3.1. Notes on the social biographies of the photographs of Heinz Roth -- 3.2. Visions of gender - nature and natives -- 3.3. The internal gaze - photographs of the expedition -- 4. Gendered visions - oral histories around the Roth photographs -- 4.1. Gender &amp -- visuality - using photographs in history -- Epilogue -- List of Figures and Map -- Bibliography -- Unpublished Sources -- Published Sources -- Interviews -- Index -- Back cover.

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