Shona and Ndebele of Southern Rhodesia - Southern Africa Part IV

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.

Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:

Physical Environment

Linguistic Data

Demography

History & Traditions of Origin

Nomenclature

Grouping

Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial

Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice

Economy & Trade

Domestic Architecture

Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo.

The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

List of contents

1.The Shona 2. The Ndebele. Appendix A: Alternative spellings of Ndebele names and terms. Appendix B - List of Kinship Terms (ndebele) Appendix C - Statistics (Shona and Ndebele) Appendix D - Numbers of Rhodesia Ndebele

About the author

Hilda Kuper, A. J. B. Hughes, J. van Velsen

Summary

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.

Product details

• Authors: A J B Hughes, A. J. B. Hughes, Hughes A. J. B., Hilda Kuper, Hilda Hughes Kuper, Kuper Hilda, J. van Velsen, J van Velsen, J. van Velsen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781138234635
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23463-5
• No. of pages: 127
• Series: Ethnographic Survey of Africa
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Zimbabwe, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity