The Winds of History
| Titel: | The Winds of History : Life in a Corner of Rural Africa since the 19th Century |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter ; De Gruyter Oldenbourg [Imprint], 2023 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (497 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Africa in Global History ; 7 |
| ISBN: | 9783110764826 ; 9783110765007 ; 9783110765052 |
X
- Acknowledgments
- XI
- Abbreviations
- XV
- Foreword
- XVII
- 1
- Introduction: Ways and Arguments Towards a "Global" Microhistory
- 1
- 1.1
- The Starting Point of My Research
- 1
- 1.2
- Microhistory: My Approach, Its Antecedents and Particularities
- 3
- 1.3
- On the Traces of an "Unknown" Matrilineai Village: Methods and Sources
- 23
- 1.4
- The Winds of History: Life in a Corner of Rural Africa since the 19th Century
- 36
- 1.5
- Topics and Key Findings of the Chapters
- 48
- 1.6
- Notes on Spelling and Terminology
- 52
- 2
- Linking the Global with the Local: A Village Crafted by the Slave Trade
- 54
- 2.1
- "When our parents came here, it was not themselves who wanted to come here"
- 54
- 2.2
- The Lake Malawi Region in the 19th Century
- 59
- 2.3
- The Formation of Nkholongue
- 70
- 2.4
- The Slave Trade and Slavery in Nkholongue
- 74
- 2.5
- Conclusion
- 82
- 3
- Christianity's Double: Islamization as Slave Emancipation
- 85
- 3.1
- Chiefs as Key Players?
- 85
- 3.2
- The Anglican Mission in Nkholongue
- 89
- 3.3
- The Spread of Islam
- 94
- 3.4
- Conclusion
- 101
- 4
- One Village, One People? The Colonization of Masters and Slaves
- 104
- 4.1
- "They let them enter": Looking Beyond Resistance in Mozambique
- 104
- 4.2
- Chief Chingomanje bin M'ponda: One Who Knows How to Speak and Act with Strangers
- 109
- 4.3
- Changing Settlement Patterns as a Sign of Emancipation
- 130
- 4.4
- Conclusion
- 135
- 5
- The Grandmother of Poverty: A (Local) Periodization of Colonialism
- 138
- 5.1
- The Colonial State on the Periphery: A History of Absence?
- 138
- 5.2
- The Ruins of the Companhia in Metanguia
- 143
- 5.3
- Colonial Exploitation along the Lakeshore
- 151
- 5.4
- Reactions: Resistance, Accommodation, and Intermediaries
- 172
- 5.5
- Conclusion
- 189
- 6
- Uncaptured Again: History and the Subsistence Mantra of Development Studies -192
- 6.1
- A Déjà-Vu of Economic Transformation
- 192
- 6.2
- The Rise and Fail of Nkholongue's Pottery Manufacture in the 1940s and 1950s
- 202
- 6.3
- From Sorghum to Cassava to Maize to Cassava: Complicating the History of Subsistence Food Production
- 229
- 6.4
- Fishing Ussipa. A History of Capitalism from Below
- 239
- 6.5
- Conclusion
- 247
- 7
- Being Resettled: A Social History of the Mozambican War of Independence
- 252
- 7.1
- How "Loyalty" Became a Viable Option
- 252
- 7.2
- Buying History with Money: Frelimo's Fake Veterans
- 258
- 7.3
- From Fighting for the Nationalist to Supporting the Portuguese War Effort
- 262
- 7.4
- Zooming Out: Nkholongue's Experience in the Broader Perspective
- 286
- 7.5
- Conclusion
- 300
- 8
- At the Margins of the Nation: Malawians at Heart in Mozambique
- 302
- 8.1
- "Aah! Even I was afraid": Mozambican Independence on the Ground
- 302
- 8.2
- "We even fled to Malawi": The Moment of Independence in the Biographies of People from Nkholongue
- 307
- 8.3
- From Taxing Natives to Taxing Citizens: The New Government on the Ground
- 315
- 8.4
- Conclusion
- 336
- 9
- From Victims to Voters: Renamo's Delayed Supporters
- 338
- 9.1
- Renamo, or How to Evade the Blame
- 338
- 9.2
- The Local History of the War
- 342
- 9.3
- Contents
- ix
- 9.4
- How Renamo Victims Became Renamo Supporters
- 354
- 9.5
- Conclusion
- 360
- 10
- Tourism and the Return of Tradition and Custom: How to Find the Chief?
- 362
- 10.1
- The Re-Emergence of the Customary Institutions
- 362
- 10.2
- Mozambican Legislation and the Customary
- 367
- 10.3
- Tourism and Leisure Projects in Nkholongue since 2000
- 372
- 10.4
- Finding the "Community" (Representative)
- 380
- 10.5
- Conclusion
- 395
- 11
- From Slave Trade to Tourism: Towards a Local History of Matriliny
- 397
- 11.1
- Matriliny: Resilient, but Not Ahistorical
- 397
- 11.2
- Matriiineal Resilience against the Virilocal Shift
- 401
- 11.3
- Conclusion
- 414
- 12
- Conclusion: The World and a Really Small Place in Africa
- 417
- 13
- Bibliography
- 422
- List of Maps
- 469
- List of Figures
- 470
- List of Tables
- 471
- Index
- 472
