Author: Peter S. Garlake
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: Thomas N. Huffman
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Category : Extinct cities
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Martin Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195157737
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Describes the country of Zimbabwe.

Author: Richard Nicklin Hall
Publisher:
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Category : Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: Joost Fontein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315417200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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This book examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the example of Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. The controversy that surrounded the site in the early part of the 20th century, between colonial antiquarians and professional archaeologists, is well reported in the published literature. Based on long term ethnographic field work around Great Zimbabwe, as well as archival research in NMMZ, in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, and several months of research at the World Heritage Centre in Paris, this new book represents an important step beyond that controversy over origins, to focus on the site's position in local contests between, and among individuals within, the Nemanwa, Charumbira and Mugabe clans over land, power and authority. To justify their claims, chiefs, spirit mediums and elders of each clan make appeals to different, but related, constructions of the past. Emphasising the disappearance of the 'Voice' that used to speak there, these narratives also describe the destruction, alienation and desecration of Great Zimbabwe that occurred, and continues, through the international and national, archaeological and heritage processes and practices by which Great Zimbabwe has become a national and world heritage site today.

Author: Shadreck Chirikure
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000260925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe. It combines archaeological knowledge, including recent material from the author’s excavations, with native concepts and philosophies. Working from a large data set has made it possible, for the first time, to develop an archaeology of Great Zimbabwe that is informed by finds and observations from the entire site and wider landscape. In so doing, the book strongly contributes towards decolonising African and world archaeology. Written in an accessible manner, the book is aimed at undergraduate students, graduate students, and practicing archaeologists both in Africa and across the globe. The book will also make contributions to the broader field such as African Studies, African History, and World Archaeology through its emphasis on developing synergies between local ways of knowing and the archaeology.

Author: Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Alexander Wilmot
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: James Theodore Bent
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Category : Bent, J. Theodore
Languages : en
Pages : 2

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