Book
Trade and politics in a Shona kingdom: the Manyika and their African and Portuguese neighbors, 1575-1902
Harlow, Essex • Longman • Published In 1982 • Pages: 16, 291
By: Bhila, H. H. K..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, a revision of the author's doctoral dissertation, provides a complete cultural history of the Shona. It concentrates on the economic history of the kingdom of Manyika in reference to neighboring kingdoms following the disintegration of their empire in the early sixteenth century. The research was primarily archival; concerned with technical problems of trade, the impact of long-distance trade in the southern Zambezi region, and the ramifications of internal and external politics. There is also considerable information on non-Shona peoples (e.g. the Nguni) and early Portuguese traders.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- External trade
- External relations
- Chief executive
- Commercial facilities
- Retail marketing
- Eschatology
- Executive household
- Revolution
- Warfare
- External relations
- Missions
- Information sources listed in other works
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shona
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1575-1902
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Zimbabwe and central Mozambique
- NotesAdditional notes
- H.H.K. Bhila
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-284)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82214177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Manyika (African people)--Commerce
- Manyika (African people)--Politics and government
- Zimbabwe--History