Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture & History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe
- List Price: $49.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Publish date: 02/01/1999
This history of the Matopos, as Terence Ranger states in his introduction, "has become a study of many of the questions crucial to the history of Matabeleland as a whole, and some of those central to the history of Zimbabwe -- the fight relationship of men and women to the land; the nature of culture; the dynamics of ethnicity; the roots of dissidence and violence; the historical bases of underdevelopment. The Matopos are a 'locality' but they are a very special and privileged locality, to which both in imagination and action people far outside the hills have given significance. I believe that this enables a historian of the Matopos to tell a story which has a resonance far beyond the local."