Part 1 Construction of people and state: internal pacification, Robert Gordon; women and VD in Windhoek, Marion Wallace; pastoral economies, Jeremy Sylvester; gender, labour and politics in Ovamboland, Patricia Hayes. Part 2 The reserves: the Herero in the inter-war period, Gesine Kruger and Dag Henrichsen; power and trade in northern Kaokoland, Micahel Bollig; reistance in a native reserve, Ben Fuller. Part 3 Beyond the police zone - Ovamboland: migration in the Oshigambo and Elim parishes, Harri Sliskonen; the ambiguities of resistance, Wolfram Hartman; the borderline by Petrus Ndongo; the Namibia-Angola boundary demarcation, Randolph Vigne.