Tears of rain : ethnicity and history in central western Zambia

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = xiii
• Acknowledgments = xix
• PART I. TEARS OF RAIN: ETHNICITY AND HISTORY IN CENTRAL WESTERN ZAMBIA = 1
• Chapter 1. The contemporary point of departure: The Nkoya-speaking people and their chiefs = 3
• 1.1. The Nkoya = 3
• 1.2. Nkoya subgroups and the recent process of their ethnic convergence = 11
• the proliferation of Nkoya subgroups = 11
• pan-Nkoya convergence and its implications for the study of history = 17
• 1.3. The major Nkoya chiefs and their political environment today = 19
• the distant Lunda association = 21
• chiefs, royal kin and headmen: the internal structure of she neo-traditlonal Nkoya polities = 23
• the indigenous Barotse administration and the colonial state = 28
• the post-colonial state = 43
• Mutondo and Kahare: moiety-like structure and the struggle for seniority = 47
• Chapter 2. The Likota lya Bankoya manuscript = 53
• 2.1. History of the Likota lya Bankoya manuscript = 53
• 2.2. Likota lya Bankoya as belonging to a genre of historiographic production = 58
• characteristics of the genre and methodological imnlications = 59
• between colonialism, missionary influence and ethnic concerns = 62
• narrative structure ana style = 66
• the uses of a religious education = 68
• 2.3. Reconstructing the original manuscript = 70
• 2.4. Editing the reconstructed manuscript = 73
• Nkoya as a written language = 74
• editorial conventions = 75
• 2.5. Problems of translation = 79
• the identification offender = 80
• gender and death from natural causes: an example = 84
• Shakalongo as female: another example = 86
• the handling of kinship terms and terms for social groups = 88
• genealogies = 90
• genealogical over-interpretation: the case of Mwene Kayambila Shishopa = 91
• terms for court offices = 93
• toponyms = 95
• more specifically literary problems of translation = 96
• Chapter 3. Historical criticism of Likota lya Bankoya = 99
• 3.1. The apologetic intention of Likota lya Bankoya = 99
• 3.2. The quest for authority = 101
• identification of sources = 101
• dates = 102
• anachronisms = 103
• recycling of published historical texts = 103
• dynastic numbers and the nature of the Nkoya royal titles: between ascription and achievement = 106
• authoritative lists and biblical elements = 112
• the spurious insertion of a mainstream event = 113
• 3.3. Shimunika's possible biases = 114
• Nkoya nationalism? = 115
• Nkoya as a toponym = 117
• Nkoya as the name of a dynastic group centring on the Mutondo kingship, and its emergence as an ethnonym = 118
• Christian bias? = 120
• bias in favour of the Mutondo kingship and the aristocratic perspective, and against earlier occupancy by other ethnic groups = 121
• bias in the treatment of slavery = 125
• bias in the treatment of firearms? = 130
• Shimunika as a laudator temporis (colonialis) acti = 138
• male sexist bias? = 138
• 3.4. The ultimate test: the confrontation of Likota lya Bankoya with unprocessed oral data from central western Zambia = 140
• 3.5. Likota lya Bankoya as literature and as myth = 148
• Kapeshi ka Munungampanda = 148
• symbolism and history: the case of gender relations = 151
• Chapter 4. State formation in centraI western Zambia as depicted in Likota lya Bankoya = 155
• 4.1. The pre-state situation = 155
• the High God, Rain and the Land = 156
• clans = 162
• 4.2. The emergence of the institution of Wene = 167
• 4.3. The emergence of states = 172
• the beginning of violence = 172
• the first royal courts = 174
• court officials = 178
• a new style of kingship = 181
• 4.4. Male usurpation of Wene = 182
• 4.5. Changes in local branches of production under male initiative = 188
• Chapter 5. State and society in nineteenth-century central western Zambia: Regalia, legal aspects, ideology and gender = 197
• 5.1. Regalia: A male prerogative? = 197
• 5.2. Some legal aspects of Nkoya states = 202
• royal succession = 202
• delegation and democracy = 204
• the extent of interstate rule of law and the geographical extent of Nkoya-ness = 205
• 5.3. Towards a male ideological perspective = 211
• limits to male ascendancy: the ladder into the sky = 212
• male circumcision and the Mbwela connexion = 214
• shattering the female cosmos = 218
• Lady Myene of a later period = 223
• 5.4. The changing kinship roles of women = 224
• 5.5. Contested patrilineal succession of the Kahare kingship around 1900: Shamamano, Kambotwe and Timuna = 230
• 5.6. Another look at the seniority contest between the Kahare and Mutondo titles = 234
• Chapter 6. Likota lya Bankoya as cosmology and as history: Aspects of Nkoya symbolism and its transformations = 239
• 6.1. Theoretical and methodological orientation = 240
• 6.2. Identifying Likota lya Bankoya's symbolic structure = 244
• 6.3. Identifying transformations in Likota lya Bankoya = 246
• from contemporary Nkoya culture to Likota lya Bankoya: examples of transformations = 247
• equivalent transformations leading to a self-validating timeless structure = 249
• looking for mutative transformations = 250
• 6.4. From transformations to history = 255
• remaining problems: periodization, and the sifting of myth and history = 257
• an alternative explanation: perpetual kinship on the Upper Zambezi? = 259
• the vindication of ethno-history = 261
• 6.5. Beyond Religious Change in Zambia: The religious transformation of women's political power = 262
• 6.6. Conclusion: history out of myth = 266
• PART II. LIKOTA LYA BANKOYA: EDITED NKOYA TEXT = 269
• Ku tontolola [Preface]: lya tikitiwile na ba / by Hamba H. Mwene = 271
• Likota lya Bankoya: lya tikitiwile na ba / by Rev. Johasaphat Malasha Shimunika ; lya manishiwile na ba, (editor) Wim van Binsbergen = 273
• Mitwe ya byambo bya mu Likota [original detailed table of contents] = 275
• [Main text, chapters 1-56] = 279
• Bizino bya Bamyene ba Bankoya [The burial sites of the Myene of the Nkoya]: lya tikitiwile na ba / by Hamba H. Mwenc = 341
• PART III. THE HISTORY OF THE NKOYA PEOPLE: ENGLISH TRANSLATION = 349
• Preface / by Hamba H. Mwene = 351
• The history of the Nkoya people / by Rev. Johasaphat Malasha Shimunika, translated by Wim van Binsbergen ; Masuku Malapa = 353
• Chapters of the stories in 'Likota' [translated original table of contents] = 355
• [Translated main text, chapters 1-56] = 359
• PART IV. REFERENCE MATERIAL = 419
• Appendix 1. A description of the constituent parts of the Likota lya Bankoya manuscript = 421
• Appendix 2. Variants of the Likota lya Bankoya manuscript = 425
• Appendix 3. Genealogies constructed on the basis of the text of Likota lya Bankoya = 431
• Appendix 4. List of published texts in the Nkoya language = 441
• Appendix 5. List of oral sources = 445
• Appendix 6. List of archival sources and district files consulted = 449
• Appendix 7. Zinkena in western Zambia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries = 451
• References cited = 457
• Author index = 473
• Subject index and glossary = 475