1 THE WARS OF THE FIELD MICE: HWESA POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND TABLES vi
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
5. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi
6. PLACE NAMES xii
7. INTRODUCTION 1
8. 1 THE WARS OF THE FIELD MICE: HWESA POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES 9
9. 2 THE CINDERELLA PEOPLE: HWESA POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS INTERACTIONS WITH THE COLONIAL STATE, 1904-50 35
10. 3 THE SPIRIT AND THE SCAPULAR: PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC INTERACTIONS 1950-75 69
11. 4 THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT IN KATERERE: LOCAL APPROPRIATIONS OF MISSION CHRISTIANITY IN THE 1950s 103
12. 5 LOCAL POLITICS AND THE WAR OF LIBERATION 119
13. 6 THE ROASTING OF CHIEF GAMBIZA: THE RETURN OF CHIEFS IN ALLIANCE WITH THEIR ANCESTORS SINCE INDEPENDENCE 149
14. 7 WITCHES, PROPHETS AND AVENGING SPIRITS: THE SECOND CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT IN KATERERE 187
15. CONCLUSION 217
16. APPENDIX 1: METHODOLOGY 225
17. APPENDIX 2: HWESA MYTHS OF ORIGIN 231
18. APPENDIX 3: RITUALS OF THE HWESA CHIEFTAINSHIP 233
19. APPENDIX 4: HWESA LEGENDS 234
20. APPENDIX 5: GENEALOGIES 237
21. NOTES 241
22. SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 267
23. INDEX 285