Oral Traditions in Southern Africa: Archaeology, archives, and history
Author : Steven Phaniso Chinombo Moyo
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Folk literature
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Author : Steven Phaniso Chinombo Moyo
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Folk literature
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Author : S. P. C. Moyo
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Steven P. C. Moyo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Steven P. C. Moyo
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Natalie Swanepoel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1776142284
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. This period is one the most formative in relation to southern Africa’s past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the region’s expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africa’s colonial past.
Author : Steven Phaniso Chinombo Moyo
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Folk literature
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Author : Cynthia Kros
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1776147278
Archives of Times Past' explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: 'How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?'0The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these experts encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook.0The essays are written at a time when public discussion about the history of southern Africa before the colonial era is taking place more openly than at any other time in the last hundred years They will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and heritage, museum practitioners and the general public.
Author : Yusuf M. Juwayeyi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1847012531
First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.
Author : Steven Phaniso Chinombo Moyo
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Folk literature
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Author : John Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0192802488
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.