To Swim with Crocodiles offers a fresh perspective on the history of rural politics in South Africa, spanning the rise of the Zulu kingdom to the civil war at the dawn of democracy in KwaZulu-Natal. Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork, the book shows how Africans in the Table Mountain area drew on the cultural inheritance of ukukhonza --a practice of affiliation that binds together chiefs and subjects--to seek social and physical security in times of war and upheaval. By exploring what Zulu men and women ...
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To Swim with Crocodiles offers a fresh perspective on the history of rural politics in South Africa, spanning the rise of the Zulu kingdom to the civil war at the dawn of democracy in KwaZulu-Natal. Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork, the book shows how Africans in the Table Mountain area drew on the cultural inheritance of ukukhonza --a practice of affiliation that binds together chiefs and subjects--to seek social and physical security in times of war and upheaval. By exploring what Zulu men and women knew about and how they remembered ukukhonza , Kelly reveals how Africans envisioned and defined relationships with the land, their chiefs, and their neighbors as colonial and apartheid rule transformed the countryside and local institutions of governance.
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