Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Liberation heritage: Bones and the politics of commemoration
- 2 Bones and tortured bodies: Corporealities of violence and post-violence
- 3 Chibondo: Exhumations, uncertainty and the excessivity of human materials
- 4 Political accidents: Rumours, death and the politics of uncertainty
- 5 Precarious possession: Rotina Mavhunga, politics and the uncertainties of mediumship
- 6 Mai Melissa: Towards the alterity of spirit and the incompleteness of death
- 7 After Mugabe
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Liberation heritage: Bones and the politics of commemoration
- 2 Bones and tortured bodies: Corporealities of violence and post-violence
- 3 Chibondo: Exhumations, uncertainty and the excessivity of human materials
- 4 Political accidents: Rumours, death and the politics of uncertainty
- 5 Precarious possession: Rotina Mavhunga, politics and the uncertainties of mediumship
- 6 Mai Melissa: Towards the alterity of spirit and the incompleteness of death
- 7 After Mugabe
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Chapter
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- The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020Bones, Rumours and Spirits, pp. 340 - 349Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2022