vAt the same time, the notion developed that
there were
‘Hamitic’ elements in the culture of herders in the S. Angola/Namibia border
regions, peoples such
as the Himba and Kwanyama/Ambo.
vHamitic was a conflated cultural/racial
category which
lumped together Cushitic/Nilotic and even Bantu peoples, such as the Tutsi,
who were deemed
to have Hamitic characteristics
vCarl Meinhof‘s 1912 Die Sprachen der Hamiten provided a spurious linguistic justification for
this.
vAnthropological
texts such as Loeb’s ‘In Feudal Africa’ argued ‘early Mediterranean
influence’ on the culture
of the Kwanyama
vAgain
the interpretation was a migration hypothesis.