The Other Zulus

The Other Zulus
Title The Other Zulus PDF eBook
Author Michael R. Mahoney
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 308
Release 2012-07-04
Genre History
ISBN 0822353091

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A detailed history explaining how and why, in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Africans from the British colony of Natal transformed their ethnic self-identification, constructing and claiming a new Zulu identity.

Dust of the Zulu

Dust of the Zulu
Title Dust of the Zulu PDF eBook
Author Louise Meintjes
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 373
Release 2017-07-20
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0822373637

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In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant labor, the HIV epidemic, and the world music market, Meintjes follows a community ngoma team and its professional subgroup during the twenty years after apartheid's end. She intricately ties aesthetics to politics, embodiment to the voice, and masculine anger to eloquence and virtuosity, relating the visceral experience of ngoma performances as they embody the expanse of South African history. Meintjes also shows how ngoma helps build community, cultivate responsible manhood, and provide its participants with a means to reconcile South Africa's past with its postapartheid future. Dust of the Zulu includes over one hundred photographs of ngoma performances, the majority taken by award-winning photojournalist TJ Lemon.

Sound of Africa!

Sound of Africa!
Title Sound of Africa! PDF eBook
Author Louise Meintjes
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 364
Release 2003-02-05
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780822330141

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DIVAn ethnography of the recording of Mbaqanga music, that examines its relation to issues of identity, South African politics, and global political economy./div

Zulu Identities

Zulu Identities
Title Zulu Identities PDF eBook
Author Benedict Carton
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 0
Release 2009-09
Genre History
ISBN 9780199326686

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What does it mean to be Zulu today? Does being Zulu today differ from what it meant in the past? "Zulu Identities" wrestles with these and many other related questions to show how the characteristic traditions of a pre-industrial people have evolved into different cultural expressions of "Zulu-ness" in modern South Africa. This authoritative and specially commissioned volume, which contains more collected expertise on the Zulus than is available from any other source, examines the legacies of Shaka, the intrigues of Zulu royalty, gender and generational struggles, cultural and symbolic projections, and spirituality. It highlights the debates in contemporary South Africa over the manipulation of Zulu heritage, whether deployed for party political purposes or exploited to promote eco- and battlefield-tourism. And finally the book contemplates the future of Zulu identity in a unitary South Africa seeking to embrace the forces of globalization.

Zulu Warriors

Zulu Warriors
Title Zulu Warriors PDF eBook
Author John Laband
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 358
Release 2014-05-27
Genre History
ISBN 0300180314

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"The Anglo-Zulu War, the most famous of Britain's lte ninetweenth-century campaigns of colonial conquest, was not fought in isolation. Along with the two Anglo-Pedi wars, the Ninth Cape Frontier War and the Northern Border War, it was one in a brutal series of interconnected and overlapping wars which the British waged between 1877-1879 to crush and disarm the remaining independent black states of South Africa. [Fusing] the widely differing African and European perspectives on events, [the author] probes the fateful decisions taken by statesmen and military commandrs, analyses military operations and their destructive impact on combatants and civilians alike, and explores why so many Africans chose to fight as auxiliaries and levies alongside the Bruitish instead of against them. ..."--Jacket.

The Zulu of Africa

The Zulu of Africa
Title The Zulu of Africa PDF eBook
Author Nita Gleimius
Publisher Lerner Publications
Pages 58
Release 2002-01-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780822506614

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Describes the history, culture, modern and traditional economies, religion, family life, and language of South Africa's Zulu people, as well as the region in which they live.

The Zulus at War

The Zulus at War
Title The Zulus at War PDF eBook
Author Adrian Greaves
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 385
Release 2018-03-06
Genre History
ISBN 1510722858

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By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership the warrior nation built a fearsome fighting reputation without equal among the native tribes of South Africa. It also examines the tactics and weapons employed during the numerous intertribal battles over this period. They then became victims of their own success in that their defeat of the Boers in 1877 and 1878 in the Sekunini War prompted the well-documented British intervention. Initially the might of the British empire was humbled as never before by the shock Zulu victory at Isandlwana but the 1879 war ended with the brutal crushing of the Zulu Nation. But, as Adrian Greaves reveals, this was by no means the end of the story. The little known consequences of the division of Zululand, the Boer War, and the 1906 Zulu Rebellion are analyzed in fascinating detail. An added attraction for readers is that this long-awaited history is written not just by a leading authority but, thanks to the coauthor’s contribution, from the Zulu perspective using much completely fresh material. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.