Great Zimbabwe : Reclaiming a ‘Confiscated’ Past (Paperback)

Part I: Learning, relearning, and unlearning Great Zimbabwe 1: Unveiling a ‘confiscated’ past 2: Background to ‘Shona concepts’ and the Great Zimbabwe nyika (territory) 3: Biography of Great Zimbabwe: late 18th to 21st centuries 4: Chronology of Great Zimbabwe ? relative, absolute, and integrated Part II: Objects, their context, and meaning 5: Misha nedzimba: on households and homesteads 6: Hari, or pottery 7: Crafts, science, technology, and innovation 8: Exotics: fame, prestige, and value Part III: Native cosmologies and ways of knowing 9: Rise and decline: resilience of Great Zimbabwe 10: Urbanism and statehood 11: ‘Reclaimed’ Great Zimbabwe in a wider context: from Egyptian pyramids to decolonised global pasts