{"id":60,"date":"2014-12-02T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2014\/12\/02\/from-%c7%82nukhoen-to-damara\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:45:33","slug":"from-%c7%82nukhoen-to-damara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/events\/workshops-seminars\/from-%c7%82nukhoen-to-damara\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u01c2N\u00fbkhoen to Damara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Origins, identities and political structures<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fish-benabou-web-ifas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fish-benabou-web-ifas.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fish-benabou-web-ifas.png 730w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fish-benabou-web-ifas-300x109.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)<br>8 December 2014<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>15:00 &#8211; IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jonathan Benabou<br><\/strong><em>PHD candidate, National Museum of Natural History<br>(MNHN-CNRS-UPD Paris 7)<br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This seminar will present research focused on the anthropological history of the \u01c2N\u00fbkhoen\/Damara, a socio-cultural group living in contemporary Namibia. This work is drawing on ethno-historical material and recently written documents produced by the Damara People collected since 2011, early and late ethnographic accounts of the region as well as scientific literature in genetics and linguistics. The general objective is (i) to trace back the origin(s) of the \u01c2N\u00fbkhoen and the historical processes leading to the emergence of Damara groupings and identities in relation to space; (ii) describe the shift form a non-structured political system to state institutions made of chiefs and councillors, the \u00ab&nbsp;traditional authorities&nbsp;\u00bb and their \u00ab&nbsp;jurisdiction area&nbsp;\u00bb, (iii) defining and freezing the (new) identities they represent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Jonathan Benabou<\/em><\/strong><em> is a doctoral student at the National Museum of Natural History. He works on dialectics between land, identity and authority and on the social and political transformations among the Damara People. He is also conducting a study on the historical and socio-anthropological approach of the community\u2019s management of the natural resources in Western Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J. Benabou &quot;From \u01c2N\u00fbkhoen to Damara. 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