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Environmental reform: a new venture of Zimbabwe's traditional custodians of the land
Journal of legal pluralism • 37-38 • Published In 1996 • Pages: 347-376
By: Daneel, M. L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses the role of traditional chiefs and religious practitioners in land conservation. It draws on observations of an afforestation program (the establishment of a forest where none previously existed) launched by the Association of Zimbabwean Traditional Ecologists in Masvingo province. The program is interpreted as a success, suggesting that traditional authorities can revitalize Africa's age-old religious and ecological values.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural goals
- Political movements
- Community heads
- Revelation and divination
- Cult of the dead
- Environmental quality
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Sacred objects and places
- Magic
- Spirits and gods
- Land use
- External relations
- Ethos
- Ethics
- Real property
- Local officials
- Warfare
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi A. Adem; 2012
- 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
- 1988-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. L. Daneel
- Journal of legal pluralism and unofficial law
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 376)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 79010696
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shona (African people)