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