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Binding memories: women as makers and tellers of history in Magude, Mozambique
Heidi Gengenbach
Year: 2010, c2006.
Publisher:  Columbia University Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
List of Audio Clips
Readers' Guide
Alternative Navigation
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Friends of Magude (February 1995)
Mementos (December 1996)
Binding Memories (December 2003)
Rural Women in Southern Mozambique: Histories and Historiographies
Back to the Past: Seeking (Women's) History after War
Oral History and Memory in South Africa
Life Histories of African Women
Women's Lives and Voices in Histories of the Sul do Save
Meeting Women and History in Magude: Fieldwork Methods
Introduction
History in Translation: Gendered Meanings, Gendered Pasts
Interviews
Archives and Libraries
Relations of Remembrance: Women as Tellers and Makers of History in Magude
Summary of the Arguments
Overview
Relations of Remembrance
Being a History of the Land of Magude as Told by the Memories of Its “Old Women” . . .
Summaries of the Chapters
Mapping Magude
[Epigraph]
Introduction
Archaeological Maps: Remnants and Regions
Travelers' Maps: Conquering Wilderness and Flirting with “Natives”
Colonizers' Maps: Circumscribing, Peopling, and Profiting from “Magude”
Historians' Maps: Origins, Destinations, and the Women “Left Behind”
Maps of Nation-Building, War, and Peace: Reconstructing Magude, 1975-1995
Maps in the Field: Reaching Magude, 1995
Locating a Woman's Life: Naming the Past in a “Scattered” Land
[Epigraph]
Introduction
Placing Names and Naming Places
Names Out of Place? Mapping the Past through Personal Naming
Conclusion
Based on a True Story: Women's Life-Storytelling as Memory, Oral Tradition, and History
Alternative Navigation
Author
Author's Introduction
Introduction
Life-Storytelling: Memory, Oral Tradition, History
The Women
Lives of Grandmothers
Lives of Mothers
Lives of Girls
Lives of Women
Based on a True Story: Conclusion: “Ah, Long Ago, It Had a Story!”
Rosalina Malungana
[Intro]
Lives of Grandmothers: Kondissa Khosa
Lives of Mothers: Anina (N'waXumana) Tivane
Lives of Girls: Fighting Story
Lives of Girls: Work Story
Lives of Girls: Schooling Story
Lives of Girls: Travel Story
Lives of Girls: Courting Story
Lives of Women
Albertina Tiwana
[Intro]
Lives of Grandmothers: Fahlaza Dzumbeni
Lives of Mothers: Machun'wasse Khosa
Lives of Girls: Work Story
Lives of Girls: Schooling Story
Lives of Girls: Trading Story
Lives of Girls: Dancing Story
Lives of Girls: Courting Story
Lives of Women
Valentina Chauke
[Intro]
Lives of Grandmothers: N'waXavela Mazive
Lives of Mothers: N'waMbokhoda Chauke
Lives of Girls: Fighting Story
Lives of Girls: Work Story
Lives of Girls: Schooling Story
Lives of Girls: Travel Story
Lives of Girls: Trading Story
Lives of Girls: Courting Story
Lives of Women
“Everyone Has Her Own Hand”: Pottery as Autographed Memory
[Epigraph]
Introduction
Approaches to Magude's Ceramic Past: Ethnography, Archaeology
Pots of Memory, Memories of Pots
“Writing” History in Clay: Elena Khosa and Julia Chambale
Conclusion
Boundaries of Beauty: Tattooing and Changing Landscapes of Women's Community
[Epigraph]
Introduction
Knobnoses, Totems, Ornamental Mutilations: Reading Tinhlanga
Beauty and History: Tracking Tinhlanga
Of God, Race, and Flowerpots: Interpreting Tinhlanga in a Colonial Context
Conclusion
“I'll Bury You in the Border!”: Women's Struggles Over Land, Memory, and Community in Postwar Facazisse
[Epigraph]
Introduction
Gender and Custom: Women's Memories of Traditional Land-Management Practices
Changes in the Land: Transformations in Land Management in Facazisse, circa 1900-1992
Reconstructing the Tiko: Women and Postwar Land Struggles in Facazisse
[Intro]
“Is there a land shortage? There is, and there isn't.”: Aida
“Outsiders” versus “Owners of the Land”: N'waMangaviyane
“I'll Bury You in the Border!”: Albertina
Conclusion
Archive Materials
Maps
Chronology
Main
Sources
Notes
Readers' Guide
Friends of Magude (February 1995)
Mementos (December 1996)
Binding Memories (December 2003)
Rural Women in Southern Mozambique: Histories and Historiographies
Meeting Women and History in Magude: Fieldwork Methods
Relations of Remembrance: Women as Tellers and Makers of History in Magude
Mapping Magude
Locating a Woman's Life: Naming the Past in a “Scattered” Land
Based on a True Story: Women's Life-Storytelling as Memory, Oral Tradition, and History
“Everyone Has Her Own Hand”: Pottery as Autographed Memory
Boundaries of Beauty: Tattooing and Changing Landscapes of Women's Community
“I'll Bury You in the Border!”: Women's Struggles Over Land, Memory, and Community in Postwar Facazisse
Supplementary Materials 13: Interview excerpt, Lili Xivuri
Supplementary Materials 14: Interview excerpt, Sara Juma
Glossary
Interviews
Bibliography
Archives
Periodicals and Newspapers
Books and Articles
Unpublished Theses and Papers
Links
About the Author
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Subject Headings: • Women -- Mozambique -- Magude District -- Social conditions
• Women -- Mozambique -- Magude District -- History
• Magude (Mozambique : District) -- History
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• Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.) "When women make history"--University of Minnesota, 1999.
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