SCCS 1: Nama Hottentot

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1. Principal Authority(ies)

1411112 Schultze, L. 1907. Aus Namaland und Kalahari. Jena. world library search
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2. Other Dependable Primary Sources

0204000 Hoernl‚, A. W. 1925. The Social Organization of the Nama Hottentots. 
  American Anthropologist, n.s., 27: 1-24. JSTOR
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0000001 Hoernl‚, A. W. 1918. Certain Rites of Transition and the
  Conception of !Nau among the Hottentots. Harvard African Studies 2:65-82. JSTOR
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Standard Sample Unit 1 (GPM 5/30/68)

Sampling Province 1: Hottentots.

Representative of the Province and of Cluster 3: Nama Hottentot (Naman, Namaqeua)

Focus: Gei//Khauan tribe (17°E, 23°30's) as reconstructed for about 1860 (45 years prior to the field work of Schultze,

the principal ethnographer), with cautious use of data from its offshoot, the //Khau/Goan (studied

by Hoernle on 1912 and 1923).

General Area: Of the eight tribal groups indigenous to the Great Namaqua

 homeland at the time of Schultze's study (1903-06), two were extinct (the
 //Haboben and //0 Gein) and one was scattered (the !Kara-!Oan), and the
 remaining five had fled or been forced to choose sides in the German-
 Hottentot war.  The senior group (the Gei//Khauan), the focus, were reduced
 in population form about 2,500 to 100 by the war and were settled in a small
 reserve.  An offshoot from them(the //Khau/Goan) had been evicted form the
 central territory by the Herero in 1860 and occupied a northern encampment
 relatively isolated form the war.  Another (the //Aunin) had settled along
 the Kuisib River, adopting and atynical life based on fishing and growing of
 nara melons.  Another (the !Gama/Num) had settled along a major highway and
 become assimilated into the surrounding population. The last of these five
 (the !Kara Gei Khoin) escaped into the British -controlled Kalahari and were
 never contacted by ethnographers.

Selection of Focus: The Gei//Khauan were studied by Schultze through

 informants,and his description is largely a reconstruction of their earlier
 culture.  Hoernle also used several Gei//Khauan informants, but her data
 pertain mainly to the offshoot //Khau/Goan, among whom the clan system was
 still functioning when she visited them.  Data from other groups than these
 two should be used only when a wide distribution of traits can be inferred.

Time: The date of 1860 is selected as the last year in which the Gei//Khauan

 collected tribute from other groups and as the date of the Herero war, after
 which the //Khau/Goan fled to the north as refugees.

Coordinates: Theses listed above (under Focus) represent the location of

 Rehoboth, the early town site of the Gei//Khauan as shown by Schapera and as
 indicated by Hoernle as their former location.  Hoernle's map, however,
 shows the Gei//Khauan somewhat to the east at the town of Hoachanas (c.18°E,
 24°10's), whence they had presumbly moved after the German-Hottentot war.

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