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Learned, nonrandom, systematic behavior and knowledge transmitted over several generations, especially customs and beliefs originating before the advent of modern science and technology. (Source: ANT / OED)
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2005. The use of vultures by traditional healers in Namibia. Lanioturdus
38 (3-4) 22-29
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| The use of vultures by traditional healers in Namibia.pdf | 438.23 KB |
2007. Die Topnaar Traditional Authority: Grenzen des Häuptlingtums in Namibia. Scientific Society, Swakopmund
39 (2/07) 12-19
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| The Topnaar Traditional Authority_2007.pdf | 3.46 MB |
1995. Changing resource use in Namibia's lower Kuiseb river valley: perceptions from the Topnaar community.
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| Changing resource use in Namibias lower Kuiseb river valley_perceptions from the Topnaar community.pdf | 55.81 MB |
2013. Indigenous peoples and climate change in Africa - Report on case studies of Namibia's Topnaar and Hai||om Communities.
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| Indigenous peoples and climate change in Africa.pdf | 1.65 MB |
2009. Indigenous Natural Products of Namibia - Marketing information.
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| Indigenous Natural Products of Namibia_Marketing information.pdf | 422.42 KB |
1988. Land and water usage by traditional pastoralists. Proceedings of the 2nd meeting of the Namibian Rangeland Forum, 31 March 1998
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| Land and water usage by traditional pastoralists.pdf | 604.56 KB |
2006. How Kings are made - How Kingship changes. A study of rituals and ritual change in pre-colonial and colonial Owamboland, Namibia.
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| How Kings are made_How Kingship changes.pdf | 3.75 MB |
2013. Land use practices in Caprivi's changing political environment. Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
2 (2) 141-162
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| Land use practices in Caprivis changing political environment.pdf | 556.02 KB |
2006. Rights, Resources, Markets and Development. A South African/Namibian Farmer's Guide to Using Intellectual Property. Workshop Guidebook.
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| Farmers Guide to Using Intellectual Property.pdf | 1.49 MB |
2007. Presentation on Project Duras. Kalahari Melon Seed oil.
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| DURAS KMS presentation 032007.ppt | 1.89 MB |
2014. Lactase Persistence Alleles Reveal Partial East African Ancestry of Southern African Khoe Pastoralists. Current Biology
24 (8) 852-858
2014. An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat livestock diseases in Onayena and Katima Mulilo, Namibia. South African Journal of Botany
94 101-107
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| An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat livestock diseases_2014.pdf | 628.82 KB |
1966. Chapter 43 – Cattle and Bead Money of South-West Africa. Primitive Money (Second Edition): In its Ethnological, Historical and Economic Aspects 160-161
2011. Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia. Global Environmental Change 21 (2) 761-770
2008. Landscape unbounded: space, place, and orientation in ≠Akhoe Hai//om and beyond. Language Sciences
30 (2-3) 362-380
Pabalelo Trust.
Website link:http://pabalelotrust.wix.com/home
2007. Traditional non-wood uses of wild plants in central-northern Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 73 (2) 329
1977. The !nara plant in the Topnaar Hottentot culture of Namibia: ethnobotanical clues to an 8,000-year-old tradition. Munger Africana Library Notes 38
Website link:http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechMALN:1977:001
1985. Serology and clines along the Okavango River, Namibia. Journal of Human Evolution 14 (4) 309 - 318
1998. Himba Paradise Lost: Stability, degradation, and pastoralist management of the Omuhonga Basin (Namibia). Die Erde
129 301 - 315
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| Himba Paradise Lost.pdf | 2.56 MB |
2001. Regional Assessment of the Status of the San in Southern Africa. An Assessment of the Status of the San in Namibia.
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| An Assessment of the Status of the San in Namibia.pdf | 2.59 MB |
2010. Beliefs and attitudes toward gender, sexuality and traditions amongst Namibian youth.
Website link:http://www.lac.org.na/pub/publications.php
Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA).
Website link:http://www.wimsanet.org/
Kalahari Peoples Fund.
Website link:http://www.kalaharipeoples.org/
The Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia (NNDFN).
Website link:http://www.kalaharipeoples.net/article.php?i=60&c=7
2007. Culture and Shared Traditions in Fransfontein, Namibia.
Website link:http://www.fransfontein.org/index.html
2016. Commercialising a Perfume Plant, Commiphora wildii: Livelihood Implications for Indigenous Himba in North-West Namibia. International Forestry Review 18 (4) 429-443
1992. Nara, das Brot der Wüste.
1996. Three decades of Ethnographic Research among the Ju/'Hoansi of northwestern Botswana: 1963-1996. Botswana Notes and Records
28 107-120
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980137
2004. Indigenous names of fish and fishing gear in the Cuvelai, Kavango and Caprivi regions of Namibia. African Journal of Aquatic Sciences 29 (2) 249-258
2011. Indigenous knowledge and education – the case of the Nama people in Namibia. Education as Change 15 (1) 81-94
2011. On bioculturalism, shamanism and unlearning the creed of growth. 16-19
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| Sullivan_on bioculturalism and unlearning the creed of growth.pdf | 874.95 KB |
2014. Shades of the rainbow serpent? A KhoeSan animal between myth and landscape in Southern Africa -Ethnographic contextualisations of rock art representations. Arts (3) 215-244
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| Shades of the rainbow serpent_A KhoeSan animal between myth and landscape in Southern Africa.pdf | 1.59 MB |
2016. Relationality, reciprocity and flourishing in an African landscape: Perspectives on agency amongst ||Khao-a Dama, !Narenin and ||Ubun elders in west Namibia.
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| Relationality_reciprocity and flourishing in an African landscape.pdf | 4.04 MB |
2017. Future Pasts Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia: A multi-media exhibition.
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| Future Pasts 44AD Exhibition booklet for web 2017.pdf | 3.93 MB |
2017. 'Our hearts were happy here' - Recollecting acts of dwelling and acts of clearance through oral histories in west Namibia.
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| Sullivan 2017_Our hearts were happy here_oral histories in west Namibia_research blog.pdf | 1.48 MB |
2015. White Namibians in tourism and the politics of belonging through Bushmen. Anthropology Southern Africa (38) 4-15
1996. The rights of indigenous peoples - the Kxoe people of Namibia.
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| The Kxoe of Namibia.pdf | 26.72 MB |
2004. The Transnational Illegal Wildlife Trade. Criminal Justice Studies (17) 57-73
Website link:https://doi.org/10.1080/08884310420001679334
2019. Beetle and Plant Arrow Poisons of the San People of Southern Africa. In History of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Toxicology in Antiquity 11-71
Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815339-0.00002-0
2015. Traditional glue, adhesive and poison used for composite weapons by Ju/’hoan San in Nyae Nyae, Namibia. Implications for the Evolution of Hunting Equipment in Prehistory. PLoS ONE (10)
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| Traditional glue_adhesive and poison used for composite weapons by Juhoan San in Nyae Nyae.PDF | 15.8 MB |
2015. The use of traditional medicinal plants as antimicrobial treatments. Indigenous knowledge of Namibia 89-114
Website link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvgc619h
2015. Namibian leafy vegetables: From traditional to scientific knowledge, current status and applications. Indigenous knowledge of Namibia 157-168
Website link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvgc619h