Soapstone birds in soapstone nests
Ethnohistorical interpretation of the Zimbabwe birds based on sixteenth- to nineteenth-century Portuguese documents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6042567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gai Roufe (Carmel (Israel), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-196 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Azania Archaeological Research in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0067-270X • E-ISSN: 1945-5534 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0067270x.2016.1173307 |
| OpenAlex | W2343510080 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
In recent years, southern African archaeological and historical studies have been experiencing a fruitful process of re-engagement, following decades in which the two disciplines appeared to be moving further and further apart. This paper aims to contribute to and reignite one of the fiercest and most fascinating debates conducted between historians and archaeologists of southern Africa in the last four decades concerning the meaning and functions of Great Zimbabwe. In the spirit of recent interdisciplinary endeavours, it proposes a new hypothesis about the cultural meaning and functions of the most notable artefacts found at Great Zimbabwe, the soapstone birds, by consulting a sizable but under-used corpus of written historical sources, namely published and archival Portuguese documents concerning the political and religious systems of the Mocaranga from the beginning of the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries
Archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
The Changing Past
The Zimbabwe culture
Resistance to the present by the past
Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered
Voices from the Rocks
Ritual Space in the Zimbabwe Culture
The gadzingo
Shona ethnography and Iron Age burials
States, traders, and colonists
Mozambique
The chronology of the Valley Enclosures
The Soapstone Birds of Zimbabwe
Snakes and Crocodiles
The Chronology of Great Zimbabwe
The Soapstone Birds of Great Zimbabwe Symbols of a Nation
Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture
The Soapstone Birds from Great Zimbabwe
Madzi-Manga, Mhondoro and the use of oral traditions—a chapter in Barue religious and political history
Territorial Cults in the history of Central Africa
Debating Great Zimbabwe
Revisiting Great Zimbabwe
Solomonic Legend
Inside and outside the dry stone walls
Expressive Space in the Zimbabwe Culture
Cognitive Archaeology and Imaginary History at Great Zimbabwe
Snakes and birds
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |