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A collection of short essays based on my first years of research and life amongst the Ovahimba communities of Namibia and Angola.<\/p>

Tales From the Ongumbati<\/strong> explore the human adventure of an ethnographer settling with a family of African tribesmen and women, the encounter with the Ovahimba, an extraordinary people, who observe ancestral traditions and possess a vast and complex thought system. As intimate accounts based on real life characters, writing the Tales was a means of coming to grips with the foreignness of the world in which I lived. They explore the development of my relationship as fieldworker with the Headman of Etanga and his extended family and relations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Rina Sherman
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