The Tonga-Speaking Peoples of Zambia and

Elizabeth Colson is a giant of twentieth and twenty-first century social science scholarship. For sixty years (beginning in 1946), she has carried out regular and intensive anthropological research amongst one of central Africa's most important ethnic groups, the Tonga of Zambia and Zimbabwe. She is the author of an astonishing number of books and articles concerning virtually every aspect of Tonga life, including religion, law, marriage, education, and the impact of relocation.

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures	p. vii
Introduction: Elizabeth Colson and Tonga Scholarship	p. 1
Notes on the Precolonial History of the Tonga, with Emphasis on the Upper River Gwembe and Victoria Falls Areas	p. 13
Spirits of the Land among the BanaMainga on the Shona-Tonga Frontier: Ethnohistory, Mythology, and Power in the Easternmost Gwembe Valley	p. 35
Religious and Group Identity of the Tonga: An Examination of the Lwiindi Festival	p. 63
The Emergence of a Plateau Tonga Peasantry: Economic Change, 1890-1940	p. 83
The African National Congress' Anti-Federation Struggle in the Southern Province of Northern Rhodesia, 1946-1957	p. 107
The State, Rural Class Formation and Peasant Political Participation in Zambia: the Case of Southern Province	p. 125
Contemporary Tonga Urban Diviners	p. 153
Adolescents and Individuality in a Zimbabwean Tonga Community	p. 171
"Don't Sit on the Firewood or Your Husband Will Die": Gender Relations, Descent, and Agricultural Development Among the Toka of Zambia	p. 203
Gendered Support Strategies of the Elderly in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia	p. 219
Famine and Hunger in the History of the Gwembe Valley, Zambia, c. 1850-1958	p. 237
Marginalization and Response: Lingering Effects of the Kariba Dam Project in Zimbabwe	p. 263
Effects of Resettlement on the Growth and Physical Status of Gwembe Valley Tonga Children: A Biocultural Analysis	p. 285
A History of Development and Downturn in Zambia's Gwembe Valley: 1901-2002	p. 307
Biases: Place, Time, Stance	p. 345
Index	p. 381
Contributors	p. 391
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The Tonga-Speaking Peoples of Zambia and Zimbabwe Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Colson

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