Monograph on the historical role of Portugal's crown estates (prazos da coroa) established in Mozambique during the early 17th century as the institutional framework of feudalism and political power - assesses the impact of this social institution on the social and cultural anthropology of zambezi indigenous peoples, and covers political systems, economic structures, social structures, interethnic relations, the decline of the system and the growth of social conflict. Bibliography pp. 238 to 252, maps and references.

Drawing on oral interviews as well as written primary sources, the authors of this book focus on the changing and complex Mozambican reality. They focus their study on the changing and complex Mozambican reality to avoid depicting the colonized people as passive victims. .

Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa actively shaped their own identity over a four-hundred-year period.

This volume looks at developments in Africa during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Brings together broadly synthetic essays of interpretation that illuminate both the rethinking of history and paradigm that has taken place within the fields of African and Latin American history and the resonances between these fields. Three of the essay have previously been published in scholarly journals; three essays and a postscript were written expressly for this volume. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR