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The Tonga-Speaking Peoples of Zambia and Zimbabwe

von Chet Lancaster, Kenneth P. Vickery

Anthropology African Studies History Sociology

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9780761836292

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University Press of America

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01.01.1970

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Anthropology African Studies Tonga Ethnic Group Zambia Zimbabwe Social Science Ethnography Cultural Studies Pre-Colonial Africa Colonial History Religion Law Marriage Education Resettlement Gender Relations Political Science History Comparative Studies Scholarly Essays Elizabeth Colson Central Africa Ethnic Studies Sociology Cultural Anthropology Historical Analysis Political Anthropology African History Social Change Community Studies Academic Research

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Elizabeth Colson is a giant of twentieth and twenty-first century social science scholarship. For sixty years (beginning in 1946), she has carried out regular and intensive anthropological research amongst one of central Africa's most important ethnic groups, the Tonga of Zambia and Zimbabwe. She is the author of an astonishing number of books and articles concerning virtually every aspect of Tonga life, including religion, law, marriage, education, and the impact of relocation. Colson has made important theoretical and comparative contributions as well. She has inspired, encouraged, and greatly influenced three generations of scholars studying the Tonga. Fourteen of those scholars, from disciplines including social and physical anthropology, history, political science, and education have contributed essays for this volume. In addition, Colson has written a concluding essay for this work in which she gives her reflections on her own and others' scholarship. This work sheds light on the Tonga's pre-colonial past; colonial transformations; religious and political life; gender relations; growing up and growing old; the consequences of resettlement; and much more. It is a major contribution to several strains of African studies.