Dag Henrichsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 119793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dag Henrichsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dag |
| FAMILY NAME | Henrichsen |
| SIGNATURE | HENRICHSEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Basler Afrika Bibliographien |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Visit of the Snake: The Storied Landscape of the Lower ǃGarib in the mid-1830s
Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the …
Remembering Jeremy Gale Silvester
Jeremy Silvester died on 5 July 2021, aged 58, following a struggle with Covid-19. In the 1980s, while a doctoral student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he was also a member of the London-based Namibia Support Committee. In 1994, he completed his Ph.D. on the history of land dispossession and labour recruitment in southern Namibia under South African colonialism. He subsequently became an academic at the University of Namibia in t…
Demands for restitution – a recent phenomenon? Early histories of human remains violations in Namibia
Current demands by Namibian families and communities for restitution of humanremains and so-called ethnographic objects in European collections are rooted inmuch longer traditions of restitution demands than is generally anticipated. In thispaper I discuss pre- and early colonial human remains violations and African protestand resistance, which triggered principal restitution, demands and fostered a critiqueof colonial scientific practices, all o…
Nachruf - Sonja Speeter-Blaudszun (1960–2018)
Anthropos , Seite 563 - 564
Re-individualising human remains from Namibia
In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains…
Rocking Badly: Namibia at 25 and Complexities
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
Visualizing African football in apartheid Namibia: Photography, posters and constructions of consumers and nationalism
In this article, the history of African football in Namibia and its politicized and public visuality are analysed with reference to the history of both historical photography and historical poster archives. A brief outline of the history of African football in this South African colony is followed by discussion of how African football became part and parcel of the marketing and consumer imagery used during apartheid reformism in late-colonial Nam…
Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930
This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces. Contributors include distinguished global scholars in the field as well as exciting young scholars. The essays l…
Documenting and Researching Southern Africa: Aspects and Perspectives. Essays in Honour of Carl Schlettwein
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
Das Schwarzkommando: Thomas Pynchon und Die Geschichte der Herero
The Namibian Herero: A History of Their Psychological Disintegration and Survival
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the …
Re-individualising human remains from Namibia
In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains…
The Namibian Herero: A History of Their Psychological Disintegration and Survival
Das Schwarzkommando: Thomas Pynchon und Die Geschichte der Herero
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
Documenting and Researching Southern Africa: Aspects and Perspectives. Essays in Honour of Carl Schlettwein
Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930
This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces. Contributors include distinguished global scholars in the field as well as exciting young scholars. The essays l…
Visualizing African football in apartheid Namibia: Photography, posters and constructions of consumers and nationalism
In this article, the history of African football in Namibia and its politicized and public visuality are analysed with reference to the history of both historical photography and historical poster archives. A brief outline of the history of African football in this South African colony is followed by discussion of how African football became part and parcel of the marketing and consumer imagery used during apartheid reformism in late-colonial Nam…
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
Rocking Badly: Namibia at 25 and Complexities
Re-individualising human remains from Namibia
In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains…
Nachruf - Sonja Speeter-Blaudszun (1960–2018)
Anthropos , Seite 563 - 564
Demands for restitution – a recent phenomenon? Early histories of human remains violations in Namibia
Current demands by Namibian families and communities for restitution of humanremains and so-called ethnographic objects in European collections are rooted inmuch longer traditions of restitution demands than is generally anticipated. In thispaper I discuss pre- and early colonial human remains violations and African protestand resistance, which triggered principal restitution, demands and fostered a critiqueof colonial scientific practices, all o…
Remembering Jeremy Gale Silvester
Jeremy Silvester died on 5 July 2021, aged 58, following a struggle with Covid-19. In the 1980s, while a doctoral student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he was also a member of the London-based Namibia Support Committee. In 1994, he completed his Ph.D. on the history of land dispossession and labour recruitment in southern Namibia under South African colonialism. He subsequently became an academic at the University of Namibia in t…
Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the …
The Visit of the Snake: The Storied Landscape of the Lower ǃGarib in the mid-1830s
History (9 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)