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Tears of the Dead : The Social Biography of an African Family / Dick Werbner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International African Library : IALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748603312
  • 9781474473538
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of illustrations, maps and genealogies -- Introduction -- 1 Dislocation and the struggle over land -- 2 Living with Europeans in our country: Tobela reflects -- 3 Nostalgia, quarrel stories, and cautionary moments: grandparents recall -- 4 Justification, rivalry and romance: moral argument in the second generation -- 5 Remembered ordeals: voices of the unvanquished -- 6 Away from home: granddaughters, mutual security, and the revival of the past -- Brief profiles -- Sources and bibliography -- Index
Summary: Illuminating 100 years of family history in Western Zimbabwe, from the colonial period to the present, this social biography is the first account of its kind for southern Africa. At the heart of the book are the life histories of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family. Together they chronicle the family's endurance and empowerment in the face of large scale eviction, displacement from home, the threat of imposed resettlement, guerrilla war, and near starvation in a food blockade.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of illustrations, maps and genealogies -- Introduction -- 1 Dislocation and the struggle over land -- 2 Living with Europeans in our country: Tobela reflects -- 3 Nostalgia, quarrel stories, and cautionary moments: grandparents recall -- 4 Justification, rivalry and romance: moral argument in the second generation -- 5 Remembered ordeals: voices of the unvanquished -- 6 Away from home: granddaughters, mutual security, and the revival of the past -- Brief profiles -- Sources and bibliography -- Index

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Illuminating 100 years of family history in Western Zimbabwe, from the colonial period to the present, this social biography is the first account of its kind for southern Africa. At the heart of the book are the life histories of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family. Together they chronicle the family's endurance and empowerment in the face of large scale eviction, displacement from home, the threat of imposed resettlement, guerrilla war, and near starvation in a food blockade.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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