Aridity, Change and Conflict in Africa

Edited by Michael Bollig Edited by Olaf Bubenzer Edited by Ralf Vogelsang Edited by Hans-Peter Wotzka

Book cover: Aridity, Change and Conflict in Africa

Extent: 471 pages

Publisher: Heinrich-Barth Institute

Subjects: African Studies

Series: Colloquium Africanum

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2007)

ISBN: 9783927688339

Price: $37.00

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Topography, soils and vegetation 

  • Olaf Bubenzer, Andreas Bolten & Mathias Ritter: Scale-specific geomorphometry of arid regions: Examples from the Eastern Sahara Fayez Alaily: Soil patterns and land use potential in the central Eastern Sahara, southwestern Egypt
  • Gunter Menz, Jochen Richters & Torsten Welle: Assessing impacts of global change on regional and local scales by means of remote sensing: Case studies from northern Namibia Game, livestock and mobility
  • Achilles Gautier: Animal domestication in North Africa
  • Nadja Pöllath: History hidden in bones: Holocene environmental change in northwestern Sudan
  • Heiko Riemer: When hunters started herding: Pastro-foragers and the complexity of Holocene economic change in the Western Desert of Egypt
  • Barbara Eichhorn & Ralf Vogelsang: A pristine landscape? Archaeological and archaeobotanical research in the Skeleton Coast Park, northwestern Namibia

Violence, conflict and identities

  • Kennedy Agade Mkutu: New factors in pastoral conflict in the North Rift of northeastern Africa
  • Matthias Österle: Armed economies, militarised identities, excessive violence: Automatic rifles and the transformation of nomadic pastoralism in northwestern Kenya
  • Larissa Förster: Between Waterberg and Ohamakari: Namibian landscapes of memory
  • Michael Schnegg: Battling borderlands: Causes and consequences of an early German colonial war in Namibia
  • Ute Dieckmann: The predicament of ethnicity: Evidence from the Hai||om struggle, Namibia
  • Susanne Berzborn: Identity politics in the Richtersveld Land Claim, South Africa

State, land and crisis

  • Juan Carlos Moreno García: The state and the organisation of the rural landscape in 3rd millennium BC pharaonic Egypt
  • Carmen Jung: Rain in ancient Egypt: A linguistic approach Michael Taylor: Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) and pastoral development in Botswana: Implications for Sand land rights
  • Ben Cousins & Aninka Claassens: Communal tenure systems in South Africa: Past, present and future
  • Georgios Chatzoudis: The history of the name ‘Namibia’
  • Julia Pauli & Michael Schnegg: “Blood tests with the eyes”: Negotiating conjugal relations during the HIV/AIDS crisis in rural Namibia
  • Harri Siiskonen: The Namibian mainline churches and HIV/AIDS
  • Edited by Michael Bollig
  • Edited by Olaf Bubenzer
  • Edited by Ralf Vogelsang
  • Edited by Hans-Peter Wotzka