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A reflection on a visual ethnography of Namibia

Published in: Anthropology Southern Africa
Volume 41 , issue 3 , 2018 , pages: 240–241

DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2018.1508358

Author(s): Rosa Persendt Contemporary Social Issues Unit, Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs), Namibia

Keywords: change , entrepreneurship , hope , mineworkers , photographic ethnography , colonial and post-colonial , visual ethnography

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Abstract

In this essay, Rosa Persendt reflects on Gregor Dobler's photo essay “Presence and Absence: Shops as Traces of Hopes in Apartheid Namibia” which deals with ethnographic photos taken of empty cucu [trading stores] opened in the early 1950s and the hope and fall associated with them. The discussion concentrates on some of the economic developments in colonial and post-colonial Namibia.

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