Synopses & Reviews
"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.
About the Author
Terence Ranger is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Oxford University
Table of Contents
Introduction
I NATURE and CULTURE IN THE MATOPOS
Seeing the Matopos: the nineteenth century
Appropriating the Matopos: 1897-1946
II THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LAND
The promises of Rhodes
Asserting identity in the Matopos: chiefship and ethnicity in Wenlock, 1897-1950
Identity and opposition in the national park, 1926-49
The movement to mass nationalism in the Matopos, 1949-65
Tradition and nationalism: regiments, shrines and monuments
III VIOLENCE, IDENTITY and ENVIRONMENT
War and politics in the Matopos, 1965-87
Seeing the Matopos in the 1990s
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