Tears Of Rain - Ethnicity & Hist (500 Tips) - Softcover

Van, Wim

 
9781138996816: Tears Of Rain - Ethnicity & Hist (500 Tips)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138996815 ISBN 13: 9781138996816
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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 the sixteenth century, on the basis primarily of one very extensive source, Rev. Johasaphat Malasha Shimunika’s Likota lya Bankoya, whose production (as a compilation and processing of local oral traditions) is intimately related to contemporary ethnicity. But most of all this is a book about that fundamental, and humble, condition of scholarship: reading.

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Wim van Binsbergen

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138996815
ISBN 13 
9781138996816
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
518

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