The Shona and Their Neighbors Book

	List of plates
	List of maps
	List of place names
	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	The Shona World and its Origins	15
	Structures and Environments	16
	Languages and their Frontiers	23
	Dialects and Names	28
	Theories of Origins	32
2	Society and Economy	43
	An Outline of a Shona Village 1880s-1890s	43
	The People of the Village	50
	Health and Demography	53
	Village Farming	55
	Local Politics	59
	Village Industry	61
	Comparisons over Space and Time	63
3	The Early States of the Shona c.1000-1700	68
	Defining the Imprecise	68
	The Origins of a Third-World Economy	71
	Different Trails to Great Zimbabwe	74
	Great Zimbabwe	82
	Torwa and Venda	93
	The Origins of the Mutapa State and the Eastern Shona	97
	The Mutapa State in Close-up	102
	The Coming of the Portuguese	108
	War and Politics in the East	110
4	Two Centuries of Change c.1700-1890	112
	Economic Decline and Change	113
	Decline and Change in the Mutapa State	115
	The Portuguese 'Conquest'	117
	The Changamire State	119
	Local Shona Politics	122
	The Nyanga Culture	126
	The Mfecane Problem	129
	The Ndebele State	133
	The Gaza State	137
	The Independent Shona in the Nineteenth Century	139
5	Beliefs and Political Thought	142
	The Thought of the Prehistoric Era	142
	Theory and Practice: The Internal and the External	144
	Forces of the External	147
	Forces of the Internal	150
	Political Thought: Theory	153
	Political Thought: Practice	155
	Foreign Thought	160
6	Conquest, Change and Challenge 1890-1990	164
	The Road to Conquest	165
	Conquest and Resistance	166
	Colonial Rule	171
	Nationalism, War and Transition	180
	A Century of Change	183
	Chronology of Events	196
	Notes	203
	Glossary	225
	Bibliography	227
	Index	240