Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture, and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe [Paperback]

Terence Ranger (Author), Terence O. Ranger (Author)

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Paperback: 316 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press (April 22 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 025321288X
ISBN-13: 978-0253212887
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 526 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,442,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Occupied by humanity for some 40,000 years, the Matopos Hills in Zimbabwe have become the scene of symbolic, ideological and armed conflict over the last hundred years. Voices from the Rocks is about landscape, religion, conservation, political symbolism, and war in the Matopos Hills - not simply the geography of the National Park there, which is seen by most visitors as a "wild place." This book reinstates culture and history into nature.

About the Author

Terence Ranger is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Oxford University

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For most white visitors to the Matopos the hills are pre-eminently 'scenery'. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars A walk through a compelling landscape, Mar 30 2000

By David Stearns - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture, and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe (Paperback)

Professor Ranger's latest work was one I could not put down. He tells a story which binds you to the place and the people who live there. The individuals and peoples -- of several tribes, African and European -- which populate his book have a vital attachment to their granite hills, and it's fascinating to see that attachment bring them together and divide them. Ranger shows us how complex the reality of inter-ethnic relations are; we see different attitudes toward nature and history be shared or not shared across ethnic and racial boundaries. Cecil Rhodes lives on through this book, and surprisingly, as much more complex than simply a greedy imperialist; after reading this book I can understand better why there's a huge Zimbabwean defense of keeping his body at World's End in the Matopos. This book is a detailed living escape from political history and a thought-provoking study of history and philosophy of nature.

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