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Heinrich Vedder's 'The Bergdama'. Band I + II
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Heinrich Vedder's 'The Bergdama'. Band I + II

An Annotated Translation of the German Original with Additional Ethnographic Material. Editor: Mathias Schladt

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Since its publication in 1923 Heinrich Vedder's monograph on the people and culture of the Mountain Dama of Namibia has been acclaimed as a classic of German ethnography of Africa. Prior to the immigration of Bantu-speaking Herero and the predominance of Khoisan-speaking Nama groups, Namibia was probably solely inhabited by San and Mountain Dama. The latter's economy centred on hunting and gathering, yet included some gardening and small animal husbandry. They produced and worked with copper and iron. Though they were soon overpowered by the polictially dominant immigrants, they were not elimi...