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Great Zimbabwe : reclaiming a 'confiscated' past / Shadreck Chirikure.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chirikure, Shadreck, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in African archaeology and cultural heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology and history--Zimbabwe.
- Archaeology and history.
- Historiography.
- Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city).
- Zimbabwe--Historiography.
- Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwe--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Shadreck Chirikure is a Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Archaeological Materials Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town and British Academy Global Professor, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
- Contents:
- Part I : Learning, relearning, and unlearning Great Zimbabwe
- Unveiling a ‘confiscated’ past
- Background to ‘Shona’ concepts and the Great Zimbabwe nyika (territory)
- Biography of Great Zimbabwe : late 18th to 21st centuries
- Chronology of Great Zimbabwe
- relative, absolute, and integrated
- Part II : Objects, their context, and meaning
- Misha nedzimba : on households and homesteads
- Hari, or pottery
- Crafts, science, technology, and innovation
- Exotics : fame, prestige, and value
- Part III : Native cosmologies and ways of knowing
- Rise and decline : resilience of Great Zimbabwe
- Urbanism and statehood
- ‘Reclaimed’ Great Zimbabwe in a wider context : from Egyptian pyramids to decolonised global pasts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 1, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Chirikure, Shadreck. Great Zimbabwe
- ISBN:
- 9780367810412
- 0367810417
- 9781000260922
- 1000260925
- 9781000260885
- 1000260887
- 9781000260908
- 1000260909
- Publisher Number:
- 40030324276
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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