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Guns and Rain: Guerrillas. has been added to your Cart. As a son of Zimbabwe I would dare say herein lies many of the clues,explanations and answers to some of the seemingly illogical occurences and happenings in Zimbabwe.

Guns and Rain: Guerrillas. I consider the book essential reading to anyone even vaguely interested in the history of Zimbabwe and its politics. 4 people found this helpful.

Guerrillas - Zimbabwe, National liberation movements - Zimbabwe, Spiritualism - Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe - Politics and government - 1965-1979. London : J. Currey ; Berkeley : University of California Press.

Guns and Rain: Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe. The guerrillas really believed in it and wouldn't have gained mass support if they didn't. 0852552009 (ISBN13: 9780852552001). Some of the bits on kinship structure, political organisation and the analysis of myth might be a bit boring or irrelevant to people who aren't interested in anthropology, but most of it flows quite well. Lan includes long quotes by guerrillas and villagers which are absolutely fascinating.

Guns and Rains: Guerillas and Spiritual Mediums in Zimbabwe By David Lan Published by African Publishing Group . It is against this background David Lan, in 2015, penned the book Guns and Rains: Guerillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe.

Guns and Rains: Guerillas and Spiritual Mediums in Zimbabwe By David Lan Published by African Publishing Group (2015) ISBN: 978-0-7974-8175-6. Loosely translated, it means, ‘You can only know of something after being told’. In the Shona culture, people believe mortals are guided by their ancestors in whatever they do. It is these ‘living-dead’ who act as mediums between them and their creator.

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Guns and Rain: Guerillas and Spirit Mediums . Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an army of guerrillas

Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an army of guerrillas. In the struggle for Zimbabwe (1966-80), hundreds of thousands of peasants provided the guerrillas with practical help and support. But they went a good deal further. This book presents a detailed study of one key 'operational zone' in the Zambezi valley.

Guns and Rain : Guerillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe. com User, March 14, 2001. Guns and Rain is a very good ethnography which demonstrates how creative human relationships can be despite the most adverse of conditions.

Guns and Rain Guerillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe . by David Lan (Author). David Lan, playwright and social anthropologist, was born in South Africa in 1952 and has been based in England since 1972. He was awarded his doctorate by the London School of Economics (LSE). It is not only a specific study of great brilliance but also a model which shows how anthropology can contribute to politics and history. -Maurice Bloch, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics, in his preface to this.

This book makes us understand an historical event of world importance, the liberation of Zimbabwe, from the point .

This book makes us understand an historical event of world importance, the liberation of Zimbabwe, from the point of view of ordinary people. -Maurice Bloch, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics, in his preface. Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an army of guerrillas.

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Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe by David Lan James Currey, 244 pp, £1. 0, October 1985, ISBN 0 85255 200 9. Terence Ranger’s major new exploration of Zimbabwean peasant politics spans the ninety years from the early colonial period to the 1980s. A former guerrilla told the same magazine: ‘Most of us only had maybe Grade 7 before we went into the bush. Now we are being scolded and denied jobs because we didn’t have O-level certificates. Lan draws heavily on interviews with former guerrillas, some of whom appear to have offered him a familiar, rather Falstaffian diet of fact and fiction, claiming outright military victory in the war.