Notes on the Kaokoveld (South West Africa) and its people / by N. J. van Warmelo

This series was published in the decade preceding the Odendaal Report and the launching of full-scale apartheid in Namibia and at one level it was desigdut to supply the government with the basic information it needed to reconstruct tribal identities amongst the multi-ethnic communities of central-northern Namibia, its area of coverage. However, these studies are also of major empirical importance, being based on detailed geographical and demographic field surveys and containing a wealth of historical and economic data, set down descriptively. Each forms an integrated district study, divided according to a standard format between zones (reserves, farms, towns) and themes (historical, demographic, administrative, social, economic, educational, and health). Although some of the initial work was carried out by N. J. van Warmelo and Günter Wagner, the principal researcher and author was Oswin Köhler. A study of Windhoek was also conducted, but it exists only in a few typescript copies. This study is especially important for the data on the Old Location of Windhoek in the 1950s. (Eriksen/ Moorsom 1989)

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