Research Catalog

Title

Namibia, society, sociology / edited by Volker Winterfeldt, Tom Fox, Pempelani Mufune.

Publication

Windhoek : University of Namibia Press : Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Fox, Tom (Thomas Arthur), 1959-
• Mufune, Pempelani.
• University of Namibia. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Winterfeldt, Volker.

Description

397 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Subject

• Namibia > Social conditions
• Sociology > Namibia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A social assessment of Namibia's economic achievements since independence : a round-table debate / Johan de Waal [and others] -- From liberation struggle to social partnership? : the challenge of change for the Namibian labour movement / Herbert Jauch -- Labour migration in Namibia : gender aspects / Volker Winterfeldt -- Land distribution and sustainable development / Mary Seely, Juliane Zeidler -- Religion and its impact on Nigerian society / Paul Isaak, Christo Lombard -- Difference, domination, and "underdevelopment" : notes on the marginalisation of Namibia's San population / James Suzman -- Women's advancement in Namibia / Saskia Wieringa, Immaculate Mogotsi -- Understanding the family sociologically in contemporary Namibia / Volker Winterfeldt, Tom Fox -- Small town élites in northern Namibia : the complexity of class formation in practice / Mattia Fumanti -- Youth in Namibia : social exclusion and poverty / Pempelani Mufune --^
• Two societies in one : institutions and social reality of traditional and general law and order / Manfred O. Hinz -- Traditionalism : social reality of a myth / Volker Winterfeldt -- "Education for all" in independent Namibia / Elizabeth Magano Amukugo -- Constructing cultural identities in contemporary musical traditions / Minette Mans -- (Con)fronting the mask : some (con)texts of protest in Namibian drama / Terence Zeeman -- Entertainment through violence? : the social impact of the visual media in Namibia / Tom Fox -- Namibian society in fiction : the Namibian novel / Chrisna Beuke-Muir, Helen Vale, Marianne Zappen-Thomson -- The culture(s) of AIDS : cultural analysis and new policy approaches for Namibia / Tom Fox -- Sexual cultures in transition in the northern Kunene : is there a need for a sexual revolution in Namibia? / Philippe Talavera -- How to make sense of lover relationships : Kwanyama culture and reproductive health / Britt Pinkowsky Tersbøl --^
• Traditional and Western medical knowledge systems in Namibia / Debie LeBeau -- Sociological perspectives? / Volker Winterfeldt, Tom Fox.

ISBN

9991659412

LCCN

^^2004410287

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library