Shadreck Chirikure

Great Zimbabwe (eBook, ePUB)

Reclaiming a 'Confiscated' Past

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000260922
• Artikelnr.: 60434074

Autorenporträt

Shadreck Chirikure is a Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Archaeological Materials Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town and British Academy Global Professor, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Learning, relearning, and unlearning Great Zimbabwe
1: Unveiling a 'confiscated' past
2: Background to 'Shona concepts' and the Great Zimbabwe nyika (territory)
3: Biography of Great Zimbabwe: late 18th to 21st centuries
4: Chronology of Great Zimbabwe - relative, absolute, and integrated
Part II: Objects, their context, and meaning
5: Misha nedzimba: on households and homesteads
6: Hari, or pottery
7: Crafts, science, technology, and innovation
8: Exotics: fame, prestige, and value
Part III: Native cosmologies and ways of knowing
9: Rise and decline: resilience of Great Zimbabwe
10: Urbanism and statehood
11: 'Reclaimed' Great Zimbabwe in a wider context: from Egyptian pyramids
to decolonised global pasts