Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique

Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa actively shaped their own identity over a four-hundred-year period.

List of contents

A Mixed Pot: The Crafting of Identity
The Historical Landscape of Southeast Africa
Early Exchanges: Political and Economic Contexts
Ties That Bind: Social Structures and Cultural Practices
Keeping Up Appearances: Identity and Adornment
Brewing Beer, Making Rain, and Holding Court
Memories and Identities in the Shadow of Ngungunyana
Past and Present in the Ndau Region

About the author

Elizabeth MacGonagle

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Macgonagle
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9781580463652
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-365-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore