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The social consequences of resettlement: the impact of the Kariba resettlement upon the Gwembe Tonga

Manchester University PressManchester • Published In 1971 • Pages: xii, 277 , 6 plates

By: Colson, Elizabeth, University of Zambia. Institute for Social Research.

Abstract
This source is a follow-up study to Colson (1967). It is a description, analysis and interpretation of the changes in social organization of the Gwembe Tonga from approximately 1957 to 1965. They are briefly described as they were until 1957, when they inhabited and cultivated the alluvial plains of the Zambezi River. (A detailed account of Gwembe life before the move is provided in the earlier work.) This organization is then compared with the changes brought about in their lives as a consequence of their forced evacuation from the area to be covered by the waters rising behind the newly constructed Kariba Dam. Changes in family life, kinship relations, the economy, political organization and activity, and their religious and ritual practices and beliefs are highlighted. Their changing relation to the rest of Zambia and especially their increasing contact with its urbanized and nationally-oriented government bureaucracy is emphasized throughout. Information on the government's plans concerning the dam and its related policies toward the Tonga have been marked for Category 653. Other government actions, whether originating from the colonial, or the later independent government, have been marked for the relevant 65* categories.
Subjects
Internal migration
Sociocultural trends
Age stratification
Marriage
Family relationships
Lineages
Community structure
Community heads
Ethnosociology
culture
Tonga
HRAF PubDate
2014
Region
Africa
Sub Region
Southern Africa
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Martin Malone ; 1976
Field Date
1949, 1956-1957, 1960, 1962, 1965
Coverage Date
1950-1970
Coverage Place
eastern Southern province, Zambia
Notes
Elizabeth Colson
Published on behalf of the Institute for African Studies, University of Zambia by the Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by Humanities Press, New York
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-258)
LCCN
72177297
LCSH
Tonga (Zambezi people)
Land settlement--Zambezi Valley
Kariba Dam (Zambia and Zimbabwe)