Author: Werbner, Richard.
Title: Tears of the Dead. The Social Biography of an African Family.
Description: International African Library No.9. International African Institute / Edinburgh University Press (1991). 211pp softcover 8vo. Owners signature ffep. contents unmarked, VG+ condition. ISBN: 9780748603312 A social biography spanning 100 years of family history in western Zimbabwe. Tells the life history of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family as they struggle with large-scale eviction, displacement from home, imposed resettlement, guerilla warfare, and food blockades.

Keywords: social anthropology rhodesia zimbabwe kalanga


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