Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African FamilyIlluminating 100 years of family history in Western Zimbabwe, from the colonial period to the present, this social biography is the first account of its kind for southern Africa. At the heart of the book are the life histories of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family. Together they chronicle the family's endurance and empowerment in the face of large scale eviction, displacement from home, the threat of imposed resettlement, guerrilla war, and near starvation in a food blockade. |
Contents
Dislocation and the struggle over land | 8 |
Tobela reflects | 47 |
moral argument in | 110 |
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Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family Richard P. Werbner No preview available - 1991 |
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administrative village African asked Baka Chedza Baka Chilalo Baka Dzilo Baka Lufu Baka Ngoni Baka Sala Baka Tandiwe Baka Tenga Baka Yenda Bango Chiefdom beat beer Bengani Botswana brought Buka Buka's Buka's mother Bulawayo cattle Cheka Chief Bango child colonial countryside cult daughter destocking died diviners Dzilo's mother Europeans family members father Fifth Brigade gave granaries guerrillas Gukurahundi Gwati hamlet headman herds homestead husband Jesi Johannesburg Joshua Nkomo junior Kalanga killed Kunda labour migrant Land Development Officer living Lufu Lupondo's family Lupondo's sons Malidzo married Marula Matabeleland Mbunga Mfila Mwali Native Commissioner Ndebele neighbours Nigoba Nkhosi officials person plough Plumtree Rhodesian sangoma Sansukwe scotch cart sebuku senior wife shillings Shona Sindebele sorcery Special Native Area stayed suffering talk tell things Tobela told took town troubles veld wives Yenda younger brother ZANLA Zimbabwe Zina ZIPRA