Guns and Rain
Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4855375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Leslie Bessant, David Mark Lan |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Guns and rain: Guerrillas and spirit mediums in Zimbabwe, David Lan, 1985 |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/219280 |
| OpenAlex | W2796693604 |
| Language | EN |
Geography · Political science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · History
All Made Up
The Creation and Early Development of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) 1980-93
On being present to history
We Have A Tiger By The Tail
Becoming Zimbabwe From Below
Critical African Studies
Placing Indigeneity
Global warming and global war
When Soldiers’ Survival Became Spiritual
HIV in (and out of) the clinic
HIV in Harare
The ‘bullets to water’ belief complex
Anchoring Democracy in Indigenous African Institutions 1
Some Notes on Animal Symbolism in African Religion and Culture
Crisis as Catalyst
The Historiography of Land in Zimbabwe
Recovering the tongue
(Re)imagining Ndau indigenous religion of Zimbabwe in the digital age
The occult, politics and African modernities
Changing nationalist politics in African fiction
Reinvoking the past in the present
Soldiering the terrain of war
Voices of freedom
Interview with an ancestor
Culture and Religion as Text
Reflections on demilitarization
Spirit-Writing and the Development of Chinese Cults
Rebel music
The Living and the Lost
Signs of the Times
Maternal Identity and War in Mothers of the Revolution
Madness or Mysticism? The Unconscious Ascetics of Power and Hunger
Izimbongi, images and identity
Ancestors, rain spirits and reconciliation
Narrative Fortresses
Local Environmental Conservation Strategies
Water as a Weapon
Locating and Dislocating Gender in Rural Zimbabwe
Socio-Legal Issues of Refugee Status in the Context of National Liberation
Mystics and missionaries
Confronting the settler legacy
Sovereign excesses? Portraying postcolonial sovereigntyscapes
A lion eating its cubs? Assassinations, mutinies, renegades and the failure of Zipra’s Turning Point Strategy, 1977–1980
Mothers of the revolution
Shona Sculpture's Struggle for Authenticity and Value
Exotica in Context
The Contradictory Position of 'Tradition' in African Nationalist Discourse
Sansningens antropologi - en tematisk og teoretisk reorientering
Guerrilla healthcare innovation
Environmental Reform
Peanuts, Pangool, and Places
Transforming Mozambique
Radama's Smile
Writing Ideology
Ideological Confrontation and the Manipulation of Oral History
National ideas and rank-and-file experience in the Muslim separatist movement in the Philippines
What does agrarian wage-labour signify? Cotton, commoditisation and social form in Gokwe, Zimbabwe
Women/nature or gender/history? A critique of ecofeminist 'development
Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development
Breaking out of the straitjacket of tradition
The ideological formation of the Zimbabwean ruling class
Local politics and the war of liberation in North-East Zimbabwe
Trees in fields in Southern Zimbabwe
Simultaneous revolutions
Peasants, businessmen, and moral economy in the Chiweshe reserve, colonial Zimbabwe, 1930-1968
Recent trends in the historiography of Christianity in Southern Africa
War, violence and healing in Zimbabwe
Arenas for control, terrains of gender contestation
I am a paramount chief, this land belongs to my ancestors’
Windows into a revolution
People, Patches, and Parasites
Death, trauma and ritual
Syphilis, sex and crack cocaine
Sacred violence and spirited resistance
Whom To Heed in the Expert Society
Considering the multiple purposes of land in Zimbabwe's economic recovery
Is Zimbabwe the future of South Africa? The implications for land reform in Southern Africa
Narratives of progress
Can spirits play a role in peace and reconciliation projects? Perspectives on traditional reconciliation in Zimbabwe
Geographies of terror, harvest of fear
New realities’ and tenure reforms
War and Society in Africa since 1800
Images of History and the Nation
The African Womanist Vision in Vera's Works
Anthropology, Religion and Power
Gender, Environment and Development in Southern Africa
The religious origins of class coalitions
Theatre for Reconciliation
From ‘Sunshine City’ to a Landscape of Disaster
Nomadic Intellectuals
The Socialist Derg Regime and Violence Against Kumpal Ethnomedicine in Ethiopia (1970s-80s)
On epistemic aporias and the coloniality of (my) categories
The Crucible of Cultural Politics
A Head for an Eye
Revelation and Resolution
Violence, Terror, and The Crisis of The State
Carrying spirit in song
Control, Coercion, and Cooptation
Ethno' plus 'archaeology
China’s security force assistance in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe and its implications for peacebuilding
| Highly cited | No |
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