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Materialities of Graves in Colonial Matobo, c1890-1960s

Author(s) Simon Bvurire
Country Zimbabwe
Abstract Matobo district is characterised with many landscape that speak into the history of the district. Matobo district’s history is summarised and archived in the various landscape in the district such as shrines, rivers, caves and hills. This article discusses the significance of landscape by focusing on graves as posters of belonging. It argues that graves in the district curate the history of how these communities have negotiated for belonging through time. By focusing at the graves of Europeans, the Ndebele and BaKalanga, this article posits that the state has had a dissimilar trajectory from local communities about Matobo graves. The article uses ethnographic methodologies to argue that the significance of Matobo graves to the state and local communities is different. Matobo communities and the state use graves to advance different trajectories. Matobo graves were capital in the hands of the state to dominate Matobo. On the other hand, Matobo communities weaponized the same graves to defy state power. The article submits that Matobo graves capture the nub of struggles between the state and communities at the periphery.
Keywords Graves, materiality, belonging, landscape, memory, Matobo.
Field Sociology > Archaeology / History
Published In Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023
Published On 2023-09-17
Cite This Materialities of Graves in Colonial Matobo, c1890-1960s - Simon Bvurire - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6045
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6045
Short DOI https://doi.org/gssfqt
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