Book
Ideology, economics, and the role of Shona women in Southern Rhodesia, 1850-1939
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1990 • Pages:
By: Schmidt, Elizabeth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source examines "the critical role of Shona women in the emergence of an African peasantry and the decline in their social and economic status when their productive base was subsequently undercut" as the result of European impositions. Given particular attention are the social, economic, and political roles of Shona women prior to European occupation; the emergence and decline of the Shona peasantry in the Goromonzi District, and the perception of African women by missionaries and colonial officials. Additional discussion concerns the theme of gender ideology and explores the objectives of missionary education; the latter is particularly concerned with "domestication and deskilling of African women and girls," and the debate surrounding their training as domestic servants for Europeans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Division of labor by gender
- Labor supply and employment
- Domestic service
- Missions
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Tillage
- Warfare
- External trade
- Public welfare
- 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
- 1985-1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northeastern Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Elizabeth Suzanne Schmidt
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Madison, University of Wisconsin, 1987
- Proquest number: UM8720482
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-488)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shona (African people)