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Author: Otto F. Raum
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-06-17
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 3110832887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "The Social Functions of Avoidances and Taboos among the Zulu".
Author: Bengt Sundkler
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780227172339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious and Social Backgrounds of the Zulus -- Rise of the Independent Church Movement -- Government Policy -- Church and Community -- Leader and Follower -- Worship and Healing -- New Wine in Old Wineskins.
Author: Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1107075327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scholarly account traces the emergence of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa in the early nineteenth century, under the rule of the ambitious and iconic King Shaka. In contrast to recent literary analyses of myths of Shaka, this book uses the richness of Zulu oral traditions and a comprehensive body of written sources to provide a compelling narrative and analysis of the events and people of the era of Shaka's rule. The oral traditions portray Shaka as rewarding courage and loyalty and punishing failure; as ordering the targeted killing of his own subjects, both warriors and civilians, to ensure compliance to his rule; and as arrogant and shrewd, but kind to the poor and mentally disabled. The rich and diverse oral traditions, transmitted from generation to generation, reveal the important roles and fates of men and women, royal and subject, from the perspectives of those who experienced Shaka's rule and the dramatic emergence of the Zulu Kingdom.
Author: Eileen Jensen Krige
Publisher: Cape Town : Oxford University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ørnulf Gulbrandsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0857452983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBotswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa—as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the “failure” of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence of indigenous political ideas and structures, the author argues that Botswana’s apparent success is not the result of Western ideas and practices of government having replaced indigenous ideas and structures. Rather, the postcolonial state of Botswana is best understood as a unique, complex formation, one that arose dialectically through the meeting of European ideas and practices with the symbolism and hierarchies of authority, rooted in the cosmologies of indigenous polities, and both have become integral to the formation of a strong state with a stable government. Yet there are destabilizing potentialities in progress due to emerging class conflict between all the poor sections of the population and the privileged modern elites born of the expansion of a beef and diamond-driven political economy, in addition to conflicts between dominant Tswana and vast other ethnic groups. These transformations of the modern state are viewed from the long-term perspectives of precolonial and colonial genealogies and the rise of structures of domination, propelled by changing global forces.
Author: Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1316062082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scholarly account traces the emergence of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa in the early nineteenth century, under the rule of the ambitious and iconic King Shaka. In contrast to recent literary analyses of myths of Shaka, this book uses the richness of Zulu oral traditions and a comprehensive body of written sources to provide a compelling narrative and analysis of the events and people of the era of Shaka's rule. The oral traditions portray Shaka as rewarding courage and loyalty, and punishing failure; as ordering the targeted killing of his own subjects, both warriors and civilians, to ensure compliance to his rule; and as arrogant and shrewd, but kind to the poor and the mentally disabled. The rich and diverse oral traditions, transmitted from generation to generation, reveal the important roles and fates of men and women, royal and subject, from the perspectives of those who experienced Shaka's rule and the dramatic emergence of the Zulu Kingdom.
Author: D. H. Reader
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780674038202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu--founder of the powerful Zulu kingdom and leader of the army that nearly toppled British colonial rule in South Africa--has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is today the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a South African theme park, even the subject of a major TV film. Terrific Majesty explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image, examining the ways it has changed over time--from colonial legend, through Africanist idealization, to modern cultural icon. This study suggests that "tradition" cannot be freely invented, either by European observers who recorded it or by subsequent African ideologues. There are particular historical limits and constraints that operate on the activities of invention and imagination and give the various images of Shaka their power. These insights are illustrated with subtlety and authority in a series of highly original analyses. Terrific Majesty is an exceptional work whose special contribution lies in the methodological lessons it delivers; above all its sophisticated rehabilitation of colonial sources for the precolonial period, through the demonstration that colonial texts were critically shaped by indigenous African discourse. With its sensitivity to recent critical studies, the book will also have a wider resonance in the fields of history, anthropology, cultural studies, and postcolonial literature.
Author: Michael R. Mahoney
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012-07-04
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0822353091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed history explaining how and why, in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Africans from the British colony of Natal transformed their ethnic self-identification, constructing and claiming a new Zulu identity.
Author: Benedict Carton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199326686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to be Zulu today? Does being Zulu today differ from what it meant in the past? "Zulu Identities" wrestles with these and many other related questions to show how the characteristic traditions of a pre-industrial people have evolved into different cultural expressions of "Zulu-ness" in modern South Africa. This authoritative and specially commissioned volume, which contains more collected expertise on the Zulus than is available from any other source, examines the legacies of Shaka, the intrigues of Zulu royalty, gender and generational struggles, cultural and symbolic projections, and spirituality. It highlights the debates in contemporary South Africa over the manipulation of Zulu heritage, whether deployed for party political purposes or exploited to promote eco- and battlefield-tourism. And finally the book contemplates the future of Zulu identity in a unitary South Africa seeking to embrace the forces of globalization.
