Tears of the Dead : : The Social Biography of an African Family / / Dick Werbner.
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 fami...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International African Library : IAL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Table of 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