The Zimbabwe Culture Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States,9780759100916

The Zimbabwe Culture Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States

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ISBN13: 9780759100916
ISBN10: 0759100918
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-07
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Author Biography

Innocent Pikirayi is professor of history at the University of Zimbabwe, Harare

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
Foreword: ``Ruins in a Wild Land'' xv
Joseph O. Vogel
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxiv
A Brief Word on Sources xxvi
Background to the Study of Precolonial Southern Zambezia
1(36)
The Zimbabwe Plateau in Relation to Zambezia
5(1)
Themes and Trends in Zimbabwe Archaeology
5(19)
The Historiography of the Precolonial Period
24(8)
A Summing Up
32(5)
The Landscapes of Southern Zambezia
37(36)
The Influence of Landscapes
38(3)
Physiography
41(10)
Droughts and Famine-Related Disasters
51(4)
Distribution of Resources: A Comment on Ecological Zones
55(4)
Shifting Patterns
59(4)
A Summing Up
63(10)
The Pioneers: Early Herdsmen and Village Farmers
73(24)
The First Herdsmen
73(4)
The Coming of the Bantu
77(3)
The Emergence of Farming Villages
80(10)
Early Contacts with the Indian Ocean Trading Networks
90(3)
A Summing Up
93(4)
Cattle, Ivory and Gold; Traders, Chiefs, and Kings: Political Centralization in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin, 950-1280
97(26)
Toward Political Centralization in Zambezia
100(6)
The Emergence of Chiefdoms in the Limpopo Valley and Eastern Botswana
106(4)
Mapungubwe and Mapela: Early State Formation in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin
110(6)
Environmental Change and Settlement Shifts
116(5)
A Summing Up
121(2)
Cattle, Gold, and Copper; Traders, Chiefs, and Kings: The Rise, Development, and Fall of Great Zimbabwe, 1290-1450
123(34)
Origins and Dating
124(5)
Great Zimbabwe as an Urban Complex and the Center of a State
129(11)
The Economic Basis of the Great Zimbabwe State
140(2)
The Status of Outlying Zimbabwe
142(5)
Some Thoughts on the Rise of Great Zimbabwe
147(3)
Decline
150(3)
A Summing Up
153(4)
Kings, Conquistadores, and Rebels: The Mutapa State and the Portuguese, 1450-1900
157(40)
Early Peasant and Chiefdom Societies of the Northern Zimbabwe Plateau
158(5)
State Organization Comes to Northern Zimbabwe
163(13)
Portuguese Trade and the Mutapa State, 1505-1680
176(5)
The Emergence of Fortifications
181(11)
The Mutapa State in the Zambezi Lowlands, 1700-1900
192(2)
A Summing Up
194(3)
Cattle Barons and Generals of the Southwest: The Torwa and Rozvi-Changamire States, c. 1450-1860
197(24)
The Torwa State, 1450-1680
198(11)
The Rozvi-Changamire State
209(6)
Early Rozvi Dispersion: Links with Nambya and Venda Peoples
215(2)
The Mfecane and Demise of the Rozvi
217(2)
A Summing Up
219(2)
Merchant Capital, Karanga Migrations, and the Arrival of the Nguni and the British
221(24)
The Portuguese and the Feira-Based Trade
222(8)
The Manyika of Eastern Zimbabwe
230(5)
Disintegration and Disruption: The Central and Eastern Plateau Populations and Karanga Migrations
235(3)
The Nguni Interlude
238(2)
European Invasion from the South and the Inception of Colonial Rule
240(2)
A Summing Up
242(3)
Conclusions: The Place of the Zimbabwe Plateau in Zambezia
245(24)
Interactions along the Zambezi
250(2)
Role of Ideology and Ritual
252(5)
The Role of the Environment in Political Centralization
257(3)
The Role of Trade in the Expansion of States
260(2)
Merchant Capital and the Decline of States
262(2)
Some Unanswered Questions
264(2)
A Summing Up
266(3)
Bibliography 269(18)
Author Index 287(4)
Subject Index 291(14)
About the Author 305

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