Jocelyn Alexander

JoAnn McGregor

T. O. Ranger

The long-view on more recent events in Zimbabwe's history.

One Hundred Years in the "dark Forests" of Matabeleland

Violence & Memory

Heather M. Akou

Nicola Stylianou

-- The editors are senior faculty members who are both established authors in the fields of African studies, dress history, art history, and human geography. They also all have curatorial experience. -- This reflection on sources and methods is timely given the resurgence of interest in African fashion within academia, museums, and the fashion world. -- The list adds to the list in its clear and vivid exploration of a topic that resonates beyond academia and in its interdisciplinarity and international pool of contributors. -- The work will appeal to scholars working in African fashion within academia, musems, the fashion world and scholars working in African studies, museum studies, fashion and design studies, African history, art history, anthropology, and cultural geography.

Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices

Creating African Fashion Histories

William Beinart

Brings together essays on relations between the environmental ideas and practices of Africans, colonial officials, settlers and scientists, challenging some of the interpretive conventions of Africanist scholarship.

Social History & African Environments

Terence O. Ranger

"Violence has powerfully shaped the history and memory of the past in Matabeleland, from the wars of colonial conquest in the 1890s to the devastating post-colonial violence of the 1980s. The story told in this book concerns the remote, forested wilderness of the Shangani Reserve. It is the story of the settlement of a disease-ridden frontier and its transformation, first into the rural heartland of a nationalist movement, and later into a refuge for post-liberation 'dissidents'." "Silence has surrounded the history of this region of Zimbabwe, and this silence has produced a profound sense of exclusion from national memory. This book helps to break that silence and redress the imbalances of national history."--Back cover.

JoAnn McGregor

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