An essential addition to the reference works on Shona, a Bantu language, and one of Zimbabwe's major languages, spoken by about three quarters of the country's population. Shona is spoken as far north as Congo, and Kenya, and as far south as South Africa. The dictionary contains some 5,500 entries, drawings, examples of usages, and illustrations.

A Basic English-Shona Dictionary (Shona and English Edition)

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Mambo Press

Newly reissued, this book is still regarded as one of the best synthesis of ethnographic research undertaken amongst the Shona people, taking indigenous religion and culture as a starting point. The author, a renowned anthropologist and sociologist of Zimbabwe, examines the historical background and sources of Shona history from the fifteenth century. He details, from anthropological perspectives, kinship and village organisation including patrilineal kinship, Shona marriage and the position of women in Shona society. The author explores the subsistence and cash economies of the Shona peoples, their contribution to commercial farming, their use of land, and their function as a migrant labour force. Further sections focus on chiefship, courts; and interpretations of sickness, personal misfortune, witchcraft, death and the afterlife. The final sections of the book consider the functions of traditional religion at family and tribal levels; the interface between traditional and new religions; and rural and urban influences, amongst the Shona people.

The Shona peoples: An ethnography of the contemporary Shona, with special reference to their religion (Shona heritage series)

Michael Bourdillon

The Shona and Zimbabwe 900-1850

History

D N Beach

Africa

An illustrated reference book to the basic grammar of the Shona language, aimed at second language speakers of Shona. Topics covered include tenses and moods of verbs, noun classes and class relationships, adverbs, adverbial phrases, verbal expressions and pronouns.

Shona Mini Companion

Dale, D.

Words, Language & Grammar

Discusses life at Great Zimbabwe, a city of stone whose height of power was in the fourteenth century and whose structure is typical of other community dwellings at that time.

Life at Great Zimbabwe (Exploring Zimbabwe)

Garlake, Peter S.

The Shona Peoples: An Ethnography of the Contemporary Shona, with Special Reference to Their Religion

Bourdillon, Michael

A novel of Zimbabwean rural life undergoing change in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dew in the Morning

Shimmer Chinodya

Early Zimbabwe: From the Matopos to Inyanga (Exploring Zimbabwe)

What's in a name?: A study of Shona nomenclature

Pongweni, Alec J. C

Training for Transformation: a Handbook for Community Workers: Book 2

Politics & Social Sciences

Sally Timmel Anne Hope

Politics & Government

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