1. INTRODUCTION: A radical new approach 2. FIRST FOOTSTEPS: Early human
ancestors 3. TIMES ARROW: Desert survival strategies 4. MOUNTAIN REFUGE:
Isolated refugia & ritual practice 5. ELEPHANTS AND RAIN: Rain-making and
initiation 6. DESERT GARDEN: Pottery & tending desert food plants 7. THE
FAMILY HERD: Ovahimba desert pastoralists 8. THE BLACK SWAN: Indigenous
views on colonial penetration 9. MEN IN HATS: Missionaries, traders,
prospectors, hunters 10. THE DEATH OF MEMORY: Lifting the veil on colonial
Genocide EPILOGUE: Critical reappraisal: desert as natural wilderness or -
the familiar home of people now banished?
