A history and critical analysis of Namibia�s archaeologies

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2020

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University of the Western Cape

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This study critically examines the political, social and institutional settings in which archaeology was introduced in Namibia. I re-examine the idea of archaeology as a scientific and objective discipline that could be practiced without input from the knowledge systems of local communities. Archaeology developed alongside colonialism in Africa. Archaeology became an apparatus for knowing about the strategic resources that could be found in Namibia. Through the processes of recording sites and artefacts archaeology provided information that was useful to the colonial administration.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD

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Namibia, Heritage, Knowledge production, Amateur archaeology, Professionalised archaeology, Formalised archaeology

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