caa a22 4500 388036818 CHVBK 20180307125007.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1161164 doi S0001972000048804 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1161164 Bollig Michael The colonial encapsulation of the north-western Namibian pastoral economy [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Bollig] The inhabitants of Kaokoland, Himba and Herero, have recently gained prominence in the discussions concerning a controversial hydro-electric power scheme in their region. They are depicted as southern Africa's ‘most traditional pastoralists' by groups opposing the dam and those demanding it. The article describes how Kaokoland's pastoralists suffered tremendously from the politics of encapsulation the South African government adopted against them. Having been enmeshed in interregional trade networks, commodity production and wage labour around 1900, they were isolated by the South African government within a period of twenty years. Buffer zones for the commercial ranching area and prohibitions on movement across other newly invented boundaries limited their spatial mobility. Trade across borders was inhibited altogether. Pastoralists who had diversified their assets during the previous fifty years and had taken the chance of a first wave of commercial penetration were forced back on to subsistence herding. Copyright © International African Institute 1998 Africa Cambridge University Press 68/4(1998-10), 506-536 0001-9720 68:4<506 1998 68 AFR https://doi.org/10.2307/1161164 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1161164 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bollig Michael NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Africa Cambridge University Press 68/4(1998-10), 506-536 0001-9720 68:4<506 1998 68 AFR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 077229010 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge