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Editorial: An anthropological encounter with post-colonial realities in Namibia?
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Abstract This article offers an overview of the research undertaken in Namibia in 2019 by a group of emerging academics studying at Hamburg Germany to shape the core of this volume. We aim to tackle the challenging question of the speaker position within a field of discourse around post-colonialism from whic... view more
This article offers an overview of the research undertaken in Namibia in 2019 by a group of emerging academics studying at Hamburg Germany to shape the core of this volume. We aim to tackle the challenging question of the speaker position within a field of discourse around post-colonialism from which our group can legitimately speak, and sketch the necessities for and challenges facing a decolonization of language, action and research. It is impossible with a small - though sensitive and ambitious - group of upcoming anthropologists to do more than scratch the surface of a problem that is so big and multidimensional. So, in this volume we present partial glimpses of our encounter with post-colonial realities in Namibia, and do not claim to be able to paint more than a rough picture. Here we have chosen to present our projects within a broader description of the current Namibian condition including aspects of history, sociality, politics, economics and ecology, religion, gender, identity and art. Such a contextualized depiction, we hope, will offer the reader a more comprehensive picture with which to understand our contributions.... view less
Keywords
Namibia; post-colonialism; decolonization; research; anthropology; Southern Africa
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
Pentecostalism; art; coloniality; decolonization; gender; history; tourism
Document language
German
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 5-26
Journal
EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 22 (2020) 1
Issue topic
Encountering postcolonial realities in Namibia
ISSN
2199-7942
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed