
Voices from the Rocks
Nature, Culture, and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe
Terence O. Ranger(Author)
Indiana University Press
Published on 22. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-0-253-21288-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Terence Ranger's Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-97 opened out decades of important debate about religion and violence in the early colonial encounter. This book is its challenging, much awaited sequel at the very cutting edge of postcolonial studies." -Richard Werbner, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester Occupied by humanity for some 40,000 years, the Matopos Hills in Zimbabwe have become the scene of symbolic, ideological, and armed conflict over the last hundred years. Voices from the Rocks is about landscape, religion, conservation, political symbolism, and war in the Matopos Hills-not simply the geography of the National Park there, which is seen by most visitors as a "wild place." Terence Ranger reinstates culture and history into nature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
16 b&w photos, 6 maps
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-21288-7 (9780253212887)
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Person
Terence Ranger is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Oxford University
Content
Introduction I NATURE & CULTURE IN THE MATOPOS Seeing the Matopos: the nineteenth century Appropriating the Matopos: 1897-1946 II THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LAND The promises of Rhodes Asserting identity in the Matopos: chiefship & ethnicity in Wenlock, 1897-1950 Identity & opposition in the national park, 1926-49 The movement to mass nationalism in the Matopos, 1949-65 Tradition and nationalism: regiments, shrines & monuments III VIOLENCE, IDENTITY & ENVIRONMENT War & politics in the Matopos, 1965-87 Seeing the Matopos in the 1990s Bibliography