Gewald first discusses the Herero in relation to missionary influence and colonial rule, Herero moving to the reserve areas in search of better living conditions, Octavus George Bowker and the Windhoek Herero, the role of alcohol at the Windhoek location (missionaries and alcohol, ritual and other cultural factors in respect to alcohol, practical aspects such as brewing, but mainly political action intertwined with alcohol). Other chapters deal with the ´politics of public sanitation and history in the Windhoek location, the Herero and the Church (from conversion to opposition, questions of trust and betrayal, polygamy, circumcision, dental mutilation, ancestor worship and other cultural institutions and values in relation to Christian values, and finally: ´the bankruptcy of mission Christianity´), and the ´social impact of the motor car in Namibia before 1940´ which lead to major changes (including Herero mobility, Herero reactions to motorization, missionaries and mobility, new hierarchies of power and status connected with access to cars).
Keywords: Herero and missionaries, missionaries and Herero, colonial rule and Herero, Christianity and Herero, alcohol and Herero
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