The Tonga-Speaking Peoples of Zambia and Zimbabwe

Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Colson
Herausgeber: Lancaster, Chet; Vickery, Kenneth P.

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Colson is a giant of twentieth and twenty-first century social science scholarship. For sixty years (beginning in 1946), she has carried out regular and intensive anthropological research amongst one of central Africa's most important ethnic groups, the Tonga of Zambia and Zimbabwe. She is the author of an astonishing number of books and articles concerning virtually every aspect of Tonga life, including religion, law, marriage, education, and the impact of relocation. Colson has made important theoretical and comparative contributions as well. She has inspired, encouraged, and greatly influenced three generations of scholars studying the Tonga. Fourteen of those scholars, from disciplines including social and physical anthropology, history, political science, and education have contributed essays for this volume. In addition, Colson has written a concluding essay for this work in which she gives her reflections on her own and others' scholarship. This work sheds light on the Tonga's pre-colonial past; colonial transformations; religious and political life; gender relations; growing up and growing old; the consequences of resettlement; and much more. It is a major contribution to several strains of African studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780761836292
• ISBN-10: 0761836292
• Artikelnr.: 22491688

Autorenporträt

Chet Lancaster received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a student of Elizabeth Colson. He published The Goba of Zambezi: Sex Roles, Economics, and Change (1981). He taught for many years at the University of Oklahoma. Kenneth P. Vickery (Ph.D. Yale University) is Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of History at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. His previous works include Black and White in Southern Zambia and several articles on African economics and social history.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 List of Maps, Tables, and Figures Chapter 2 Introduction: Elizabeth
Colson and Tonga Scholarship Chapter 3 Notes on the Precolonial HIstory of
the Tonga, with Emphasis on the Upper River Gwembe and Vicotira Falls Areas
Chapter 4 Spirits of the Land among the BanaMainga on the Shona-Tonga
Frontier: Ethnohistory, Mythology, and Power in the Easternmost Gwembe
Valley Chapter 5 Religious and Group Identity of the Tonga: An Examination
of theLwiindi Festival Chapter 6 The Emergence of a Plateau Tonga
Peasantry: Economic Change, 1890-1940 Chapter 7 The African National
Congress' Anti-Federation Struggle in the Southern Province of the Northern
Rhodesia, 1946-1957 Chapter 8 The State, Rural Class Formation and Peasant
Political Participation in Zambia: the Case of Southern Province Chapter 9
Contemporary Tonga Urban Diviners Chapter 10 Adolescents and Individuality
in a Zimbabwean Tonga Community Chapter 11 Gendered Support Strategies of
the Elderly in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia Chapter 12 Famine and Hunger in
the History of the Gwembe Valley, Zambia, c. 1850-1958 Chapter 13
Marginalization and Response: Lingering Effects of the Kariba Dam Project
in Zimbabwe Chapter 14 Effects of Resettlement on the Growth and Physical
Status of Gwembe Valley Tonga Children: A Biocultural Analysis Chapter 15 A
History of Development and Downturn in Zambia's Gwembe Valley: 1901-2002
Chapter 16 Biases: Place, Time, Stance Part 17 Index Part 18 Contributors