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Binding memories: women as makers and tellers of history in Magude, Mozambique

Heidi Gengenbach 2010 © Columbia University Press
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  • Table of Contents

  • Resources

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  • Cover
  • 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
  • Supplementary Materials
    • Supplementary Materials 1
    • Supplementary Materials 2
    • Supplementary Materials 3
    • Supplementary Materials 4
    • Supplementary Materials 5 Chief Magud's Hospitality
    • Supplementary Materials 6
    • Supplementary Materials 7 Antioka
    • Supplementary Materials 8 MATIMU YA YINDLO YA KOKWANA PONTIA KU FIKA KAVA TATANA VA HINA HI LAWA By Sinai Mundlovu
    • Supplementary Materials 9 Text for Audio (Lise Nsumbane) Interview #1 (021), 29 June 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 10 Text for Audio (Rosalina Malungana) Interview #3 (005), 3 June 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 11 Interview excerpt, Talita Kwambate, Interview #1 (121), 17 January 1996
    • Supplementary Materials 12
    • Supplementary Materials 13 Interview excerpt, Lili Xivuri, Interview #1 (056), 24 September 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 14 Interview excerpt, Sara Juma, Interview #1 (073), 25 October 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 15 Interview excerpt, Misse Xivuri, Interviews #1 (061) & 2 (085), 4 October 1995, 20 November 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 16 Interview excerpt, Rosalina Malungana, Interviews #2 (004), 28 May 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 17 Interview excerpt, Marta Mabunda, Interviews #2 (158), 22 March 1996
    • Supplementary Materials 18 Interview excerpt, Albertina Tiwana, Interviews #3 (092), 29 November 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 19 Interview excerpt, Albertina Tiwana, Interviews #2 (065), 14 October 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 20 Interview excerpt, Albertina Tiwana, Interviews #2 (065), 14 October 1995
    • Supplementary Materials 21
    • Supplementary Materials 22
    • Supplementary Materials 23
    • Supplementary Materials 24
    • Supplementary Materials 25

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Source: From Alexandre Augusto Terry, “Relatório dos itinerários de Magude ao Sabíe e do Sabíe a Incomati,” 1898. AHM, Governo do Distrito de Lourenço Marques, Fundo do Século XIX: Sala 8, Caixa 130, estante Bd-2-1878-1893.

Source: From Alexandre Augusto Terry, “Relatório dos itinerários de Magude ao Sabíe e do Sabíe a Incomati,” 1898. AHM, Governo do Distrito de Lourenço Marques, Fundo do Século XIX: Sala 8, Caixa 130, estante Bd-2-1878-1893.

Preliminary sketch of a proposed irrigation system for the lower Nkomati River, 1898. Source: From Alexandre Augusto Terry, “Relatório dos itinerários de Magude ao Sabíe e do Sabíe a Incomati,” 1898. AHM, Governo do Distrito de Lourenço Marques, Fundo do Século XIX: Sala 8, Caixa 130, estante Bd-2-1878-1893.

Source: Heidi Gengenbach, Field sketchbook 1 (29 December 1995), 95-96.

Source: Heidi Gengenbach, Field sketchbook 1 (29 December 1995), 95-96.

Source: Heidi Gengenbach, Field sketchbook 1 (29 December 1995), 95-96.

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Source: Heidi Gengenbach.

Partially built hut and granary. Source: Heidi Gengenbach.

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Julia Chambale putting finishing touches on a mbita, 1995. Source: Heidi Gengenbach.

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Source: Heidi Gengenbach.

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Julia Chambale's pots drying in the sun. On right, a ximbitana and nkambana; in front and on left, a kalangu; at back, a mbita, 1995. Source: Heidi Gengenbach.

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Source: Map by Heidi Gengenbach. Based on “Província de Maputo Carta de Solos,” compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agronómica, Departamento de Terra e Água, Maputo, 1994.

Source: Map by Heidi Gengenbach. Based on “Província de Maputo Carta de Solos,” compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agronómica, Departamento de Terra e Água, Maputo, 1994.

Soils of Magude district. Source: Map by Heidi Gengenbach. Based on “Província de Maputo Carta de Solos,” compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agronómica, Departamento de Terra e Água, Maputo, 1994.

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Source: Henri A. Junod, Life of a South African Tribe (Neuchatel: Imprimerie Attinger Frères, 1912), 1:193.

Source: Henri A. Junod, Life of a South African Tribe (Neuchatel: Imprimerie Attinger Frères, 1912), 1:193.

Thonga women, early 1900s. Source: Henri A. Junod, Life of a South African Tribe (Neuchatel: Imprimerie Attinger Frères, 1912), 1:193.

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Abandoned cantina, Facazisse. Source: Heidi Gengenbach.

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