The Namibian Herero: a history of their psychosocial disintegration and survival
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THE NAMIBIAN HERERO
A HISTORY OF THEIR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISINTEGRATION
AND SURVIVAL
BY
KARLA POEWE
AFRICAN STUDIES VOLUME ONE
THE EDWIN MELLEN PRESS LEWISTON/QUEENSTON
IMAGE 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO PEOPLE AND PLACE 1
1. ARRIVAL OF ANTHROPOLOGIST IN NAMIBIA 3
1.1 WINDHOEK 3
1.2 KATUTURA, THE BLACK LOCATION 6
1.3 SINGLE QUARTERS 10
1.4 IN THE OLD HERERO SECTION 17
1.5 THE GRAVEYARD 19
PART TWO: THE PAST 25
2. THE STORY BEGINS 27
3. HERERO SEEN THROUGH GERMAN EYES 35
3.1 EARLY PERCEPTIONS OF THE HERERO 35
3.2 HOW THE HERERO SAW THE GERMANS 47
3.3 HERERO AND GERMAN: A SUMMING UP 49
3.4 CONCLUSION 53
4. THE DAMAGE IS DONE: THE WAR AND ITS
AFTERMATH 55
4.1 CAUSES OF THE 1904 WAR 55
4.2 CONFLICTING VIEWS: GENOCIDE, NATURE, OR JUSTIFICATION 57
4.3 EXTREMITY AND THE REALITY OF HERERO SUFFERING 68
4.4 A BRIEF WORD ABOUT THE FATE OF THE GERMAN SOLDIER 75
4.5 MASS CONVERSIONS AND CONFUSIONS 77
4.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS 80
5. HERERO HEALTH BEFORE AND AFTER 1904 85
5.1 PROLOGUE 85
5.2 HERERO HEALTH BEFORE THE DEFEAT 86
5.3 SANITATION, HYGIENE, AND SYPHILIS 88
5.4 REPORTED DISEASES BETWEEN 1910-13 92
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6. PROGRESSIVE CULTURAL DECAY AND THE SEEDS OF
REVITALIZATION 99
6.1 WHITE IMPROVEMENT. BLACK DETERIORATION 99
6.2 HERERO TURN TO RELIGION 104
6.3 SEARCH FOR A BLUEPRINT 107
PART THREE: UNDER THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 113
7. THE REVITALIZATION PROCESS 115
7.1 REGIME TRANSITION AND INCREASED INDIVIDUAL STRESS 115
7.2 THE PERIOD OF CULTURAL DISTORTION 117
7.3 INITIAL RESPONSE TO PROGRESSIVE DISORGANIZATION: MASS PARANOIA 125
7.4 REVITALIZATION: FORMULATION OF A CODE 129
8. FROM REVITALIZATION TO GOAL CULTURE 137
8.1 INTERPRETATION OF THE CODE: MOCK MILITARISM 137
8.2 HOSEA'S ATTEMPT TO ENLIGHTEN THE ADMINISTRATION 141
9. THE TRANSFER CULTURE: ITS RISE AND DECLINE 147
9.1 THE RISE OF OTJISERANDU OR THE BAND OF
NATIONALS 147
9.2 PRESSURE ON OTJISERANDU TO DISBAND 149
9.3 THE INQUIRY 151
9.4 HOSEA'S DESPAIR 158
10. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE VS. INCORPORATION 163
10.1 THE NEW GOAL 163
10.2 DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE HERERO AND THE ADMINISTRATION: LAND,
EDUCATION, AND PETITIONS 168
10.3 CONCLUDING REMARKS 181
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11. HERERO WOMEN: THE POLITICS OF HEALTH
183
11.1 INTRODUCTION 183
11.2 ASPECTS OF THE HERERO THEORY OF HEALTH 186
11.3 THE WHITE ADMINISTRATION'S REACTION TO HERERO POLITICS OF HEALTH
189
11.3.1. WELFARE OFFICER TO MAGISTRATE 189
11.3.2. CHIEF NATIVE COMMISSIONER TO ADMINISTRATOR 190
11.3.3. BACK TO THE RESERVE BOARD 192
11.3.4. FINAL REPORT FROM MAGISTRATE TO ADMINISTRATOR 195
12. COMPULSORY EXAMINATIONS 197
12.1 THE HERERO WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION IN WINDHOEK 200 12.2 MEETING WITH
MEN 203
12.3 WOMEN RESPOND 208
12.4 CONCLUDING REMARKS 212
PART FOUR: THE PRESENT: A STRIPPED SOCIETY 215
13. NEGATIVE MUTUALITY: THE ESSENCE OF HERERO
RELATIONSHIPS 217
13.1 INTRODUCTION 217
13.2 VEGETATIVE SYSTEM AND DEPERSONALIZED BODY IMAGERY 223
13.3 NIGHT-LOVER RELATIONSHIPS: LIFE LIVED AT TWO LEVELS 227
14. HERERO ATTITUDES 233
14.1 ATTITUDE CLUSTER 233
14.2 HERERO, MENTAL ILLNESS, AND THE MENTAL HOSPITAL 235
14.3 INTERVIEWS AND FINDINGS AT THE MENTAL HOSPITAL 238
14.4 INTERVIEW WITH A PSYCHIATRIST 239
14.5 INTERVIEW WITH A PSYCHIATRIC MALE NURSE 240
14.6 DATA FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL RECORDS 241
15. THE WORKERS 247
15.1 DIFFERENTIAL ATTITUDES OF UNSKILLED WORKERS, INDEPENDENT WORKERS,
AND RETURNEES 255
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16. INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN 259
16.1 A GIRL IS A GIRL, BUT A BOY IS A TENUOUS IDEA 259
17. THE PROPHETS 273
17.1 BREAKING THE PARANOID BARRIER OR FINDING THE ENEMY WITHIN 273
17.2 AS THE PROPHETS TELL IT: PROPHET TJIMO MAZUKO 282
17.3 PROPHETESS KORO TAKARA 288
17.4 PROPHETESS MAKERO TJIHUNGU 293
17.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS 298
18. THE POLITICIANS 305
18.1 IDENTIFYING THE ENEMY WITHOUT 305
18.2 HOSEA ENTERS POLITICS 310
18.3 HOSEA KUTAKO'S POLITICS 314
18.4 INCREASING DESPERATION 325
18.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS 329
19. CONCLUSION 331
INDEX 335
TABLES
TABLE I - CHARACTER TRAITS OF THE HERERO:
CHANGES OVER TIME 349
TABLE II - BACHSTEIN-KOPPEL: 111 BLACKS TREATED IN THE BAULAZARETT,
WINDHOEK, 1911 351
TABLE III - CORPORATION WORKERS VS. GENERAL POPULATION 353
TABLE IV - THE HERERO ERURU-OKUKUEKURURA DISORDER AND PARALLELS WITH
WESTERN PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDERS 355
TABLE V - MENTAL ILLNESS AS PER HOSPITAL
STATISTICS 357
BIBLIOGRAPHY 359 |
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