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Livelihoods of Ethnic Minorities in Rural Zimbabwe

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Editors:
  1. Kirk Helliker

    1. Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa

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  2. Patience Chadambuka

    1. Department of Community Studies, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

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  3. Joshua Matanzima

    1. Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

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  • First full-length manuscript about ethnic minorities in Zimbabwe, irrespective of its focus on livelihoods
  • First full-length manuscript to consider seriously the significance of ethnicity for livelihoods in Zimbabwe
  • By focusing on the intertwined processes of ethnic belonging and livelihood construction

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Theorising and Historicising the Livelihoods of Ethnic Minorities in Zimbabwe

    • Kirk Helliker, Joshua Matanzima, Patience Chadambuka
    Pages 1-28

  3. Land, Livelihoods and Ethnicity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Tshwa San of Zimbabwe—Land, Livelihoods, and Ethnicity

      • Davy Ndlovu, Ben Begbie-Clench, Robert K. Hitchcock, Melinda C. Kelly
      Pages 31-50

    3. ‘Men of the Soil’: Basotho Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1950s

      • Joseph Mujere
      Pages 51-65

    4. Transformations in the Livelihood Activities of Hlengwe People of the South-East Lowveld of Zimbabwe, 1890–2014

      • Taderera Hebert Chisi
      Pages 67-85
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About this book

The book provides empirically-rich case studies of the lives and livelihoods of marginalised ethnic minorities in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on diverse rural areas. It demonstrates the dynamic and complex relationships existing between ethnic minorities and livelihoods, and analyses the ways in which projects of belonging (and identity-formation) amongst these ethnic minorities are entangled in their respective livelihood construction projects, and vice versa. The ethnic minorities include those considered indigenous to Zimbabwe, and those often defined as ‘aliens’, including ethnicities with a transnational presence in southern Africa. The ethnicities studied in the book include the following: Chewa, Doma, Tonga, Tshwa San, Shangane, Basotho, Ndau, Hlengwe and Nambya. By studying their livelihoods in particular, this book offers the first full manuscript about ethnic minorities in Zimbabwe. In doing so, it highlights the significance of these ethnic minorities to Zimbabwean history, politics and society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa

    Kirk Helliker

  • Department of Community Studies, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

    Patience Chadambuka

  • Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

    Joshua Matanzima

About the editors

Joshua Matanzima is a PhD candidate in Anthropology, at La Trobe University, Australia. He is a member of the Gwembe Tonga Research Project founded in 1956. He holds a BA honours degree in History from the University of Zimbabwe and a MA degree in Anthropology from Rhodes University. His research interests include anthropology of landscapes, human-wildlife conflicts and borderland economics with special emphasis on the Zambezi Valley. He has published a book chapter, several journal articles and book reviews in accredited international journals. 

Kirk Helliker is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa, where he also heads the Unit of Zimbabwean Studies, which he founded in 2015. He publishes widely on Zimbabwean society and also supervises a significant number of PhD and MA students, mostly on Zimbabwean topics. 

Patience Chadambuka  is a Lecturer and Chairperson in the Department of Community Studies  (formerly Sociology Department) at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University, South Africa, MSc in Sociology and Anthropology, and a BSc in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Tertiary Education. Her areas of research interest include Land and Agrarian Studies, Ethnicity, Livelihoods and Migration.

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