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082			_a305.56 RAY
100			_aRayner, William.
245		0	_aTribes and its successors : _ban account of african traditional life and European settlement in southern Rhodesia
260			_aLondon
260			_bFaber and Faber
260			_c1962
300			_a239 p.
520			_aThe book attempts to give a picture of the old life of the Mashona tribes, and to set this picture beside that of the European occupation. In fact, the book is a deliberate hybrid, drawing from anthropology as well as history in the hope that one will illuminate the other. If this. juxtaposition affords a new perspective, I shall have achieved what I wanted to do. In one sense, this is the story of what happened to a part of Central Africa as a result of its occupation by white colonists in the final phase of British imperialism. But it also provides an instance of a much more important general process: the transformation of the world by Western industrial culture. The pioneers did not merely take over a tract of land in Central Africa; they imposed their way of life on an existing society which, because of its material poverty, they dismissed as worthless and savage. Thus, the picture presented here, despite its markedly indi vidual nature, may also serve as an example of what is perhaps the most characteristic phenomenon of the modern world.
650			_aSocial structure
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