"Terence Ranger's Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-97 opened out decades of important debate about religion and violence in the early colonial encounter. This book is its challenging, much awaited sequel at the very cutting edge of postcolonial studies." ―Richard Werbner, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Occupied by humanity for some 40,000 years, the Matopos Hills in Zimbabwe have become the scene of symbolic, ideological, and armed conflict over the last hundred years. Voices from the Rocks is about landscape, religion, conservation, political symbolism, and war in the Matopos Hills―not simply the geography of the National Park there, which is seen by most visitors as a "wild place." Terence Ranger reinstates culture and history into nature.

Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture, and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe

History

Ranger, Terence O.

Africa

Indiana University Press

The Matopos Hills, occupied by humans for some 40,000 years, have become the scene of symbolic, ideological, political, and armed conflict between Shona, Ndebele, and Europeans for more than 100 years. Supernatural and human voices have joined in rejoicings, laments, and protests. They speak about history, economy, aspirations and grievances.This history of the Matopos, as Terence Ranger states in his introduction, ""has become a study of many of the questions crucial to the history of Matabeleland as a whole, and some of those central to the history of Zimbabwe -- the fight relationship of men and women to the land; the nature of culture; the dynamics of ethnicity; the roots of dissidence and violence; the historical bases of underdevelopment. The Matopos are a 'locality' but they are a very special and privileged locality, to which both in imagination and action people far outside the hills have given significance. I believe that this enables a historian of the Matopos to tell a story which has a resonance far beyond the local.""

Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture & History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe

Ranger, Terence

Are We Not Also Men? (Social History of Africa)

Cloth Edition. This collective biography of a father and his two sons illuminates much of the history of both elite and mass politics in colonial Zimbabwe.

Heinemann

Paper Edition. This collective biography of a father and his two sons illuminates much of the history of both elite and mass politics in colonial Zimbabwe.

Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-7: A Study in African Resistance

Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

Univ. Of California Pr.

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. It addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history.

The Invention of Tradition (Past and Present Publications)

Hobsbawm

World

Cambridge University Press

Violence has powerfully shaped the history of Matabeleland from the 1890s to the 1980s, and silence has surrounded the history of this region of Zimbabwe, excluding it from national memory. This text aims to break the silence and redress the imbalance of Zimbabwe's national history. North America: Heinemann; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (Social History of Africa)

Alexander, Jocelyn

McGregor, JoAnn

James Currey Ltd.

Violence has powerfully shaped the history of Matabeleland from the 1890s to the 1980s, and silence has surrounded the history of this region of Zimbabwe, excluding it from national memory. This text aims to break the silence and redress the imbalance of Zimbabwe's national history. North America: Heinemann; Zimbabwe: Weaver

Violence & Memory: One Hundred Years in the "Dark Forests" of Matabeleland (Social History of Africa)

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Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture, and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe

Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture & History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe

Are We Not Also Men? (Social History of Africa)

Are We Not Also Men? (Social History of Africa)

Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-7: A Study in African Resistance

Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

The Invention of Tradition (Past and Present Publications)

Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (Social History of Africa)

Violence & Memory: One Hundred Years in the "Dark Forests" of Matabeleland (Social History of Africa)