Book
Contested power in Angola, 1840s to the present
University of Rochester Press • Rochester, N.y. • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Heywood, Linda Marinda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this book, Heywood summarizes the material from her dissertation (document no. 9) and continues the history of the Ovimbundu and Angola up to 1997. Her objective is to account for the bitter ethnic conflict and civil war that has ravaged the postcolonial state (1975-1992). She focuses on the repressive Salazar regime (1932-1968), and the implementation of its racist program to make Angola a country of white settlers supported by a black rural proletariat. The regime broke the back of Ovimbundu rural farmers through its oppressive tax and corvée system, and corrupt agricultural marketing boards. She also exmaines the war of liberation (1961-1975) and its connection to regional and global politics. Backed by the United States, UNITA (Uniao Nacional de Independencia Total de Angola) leader Jonas Savimbi was able to exploit the rural-urban rift in the civil war that followed Angolan Independence.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External trade
- Ethnic stratification
- External relations
- Taxation and public income
- Political parties
- Revolution
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ovimbundu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1840-1997
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Angola
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Linda Heywood
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-295) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00027765
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mbundu (African people)