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Author Chirikure, Shadreck

Title Great Zimbabwe Reclaiming a 'Confiscated' Past
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (339 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in African Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Ser
Routledge Studies in African Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Shona concepts -- Part I Learning, relearning, and unlearning Great Zimbabwe -- Chapter 1 Unveiling a 'confiscated' past -- Introduction: is recapturing a 'confiscated' past realistic or utopian? -- Colonisation, the Zimbabwe controversy, and the genesis of the confiscation problem -- 'Disciplining' archaeology and the entrenchment of the confiscation of the past
Towards reversing the 'confiscation': concept revision and critique of sources of information -- Organisation of the book -- References -- Chapter 2 Background to 'Shona' concepts and the Great Zimbabwe nyika (territory) -- Introduction -- 'Shona' concepts and dynamism of practice -- Site description: Great Zimbabwe and its territory (nyika) -- Physiographic setting: geology, soils, climate, and vegetation -- Deep and recent histories: cultural succession in and around Great Zimbabwe -- Discussion: 'we are not stakeholders -- we are owners of the past' -- Conclusion -- References
Chapter 3 Biography of Great Zimbabwe: late 18th to 21st centuries -- Why a biography of Great Zimbabwe? -- Threading a history of activities within and around Great Zimbabwe: late 19th century to the present -- What is and is not in a name? A biography of the names of Great Zimbabwe and its components -- Biography of research at Great Zimbabwe: late 19th to early 21st century -- Mapping the history of research at Great Zimbabwe -- Great Zimbabwe as a mobile collection -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Chronology of Great Zimbabwe -- relative, absolute, and integrated -- Introduction
What do we know about the chronology of Great Zimbabwe? -- Stratigraphy and cultural layering in Great Zimbabwe's constituent areas -- Stratigraphy of the walled areas -- Stratigraphy of the unwalled areas: Car Park Midden,Barrier Hut, Fireguard Midden, and the Mujejeje middens -- Relative dating of Great Zimbabwe: typological analyses of local and imported objects -- Radiocarbon dates from Great Zimbabwe's constituent areas -- Nemanwa Ruin -- The unwalled settlements of Great Zimbabwe -- The unwalled settlements west of the site: Car Park Midden and Barrier Hut
The Fireguard Midden and other adjacent areas -- Unwalled settlements at Mujejeje -- Discussion: towards an integrated chronology of Great Zimbabwe -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Objects, their context, and meaning -- Chapter 5 Misha nedzimba: on homesteads and households -- Introduction -- Anatomy of Shona homesteads and households -- Materials, techniques, and typologies: exploring dry stone walls and house structures within Great Zimbabwe -- Discussion: what social activities form Great Zimbabwe's households? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Hari, or pottery -- Introduction
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Archaeology and history -- Zimbabwe
Antiquities.
Archaeology and history.
Historiography.
SUBJECT Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057020
Zimbabwe -- Historiography
Zimbabwe -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149803
Subject Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe -- Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000260925
9781000260922