518 Pages
by
Routledge
518 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1992. This is a book about ethnicity among the Nkoya people in central western Zambia, and about the historical background out of which that ethnicity is made. It studies in detail the fascinating ways in which ethnicity both creates, and feeds upon, ethno-history. At the same time it assesses the possibility of reconstructing objective historical processes, in that region since... Read more
Part I. Tears of Rain : Ethnicity and history IN CENTRAL WESTERN ZAMBIA Chapter 1. The contemporary point of departure: The Nkoya-speaking people and their chiefs Chapter 2. The Likota lya Bankoya manuscript Chapter 3. Historical criticism of Likota lya Bankoya Chapter 4. State formation in central western Zambia as depicted in Likota lya Bankoya Chapter 5. State and society in nineteenth-century central western Zambia:Chapter 6. Likota lya Bankoya as cosmology and as history: Aspects of Nkoya symbolism and its transformations Part II. Likotalya Bankoya :Part III. The history of the Nkoyapeople Part IV . Reference Material
Biography
Wim van Binsbergen
