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Journal of Southern African Studies Contents, Volume 28, 2002 EDITORS: JOCELYN ALEXANDER, JO BEALL and The Journal of Southern African Studies is an international DEBORAH GAITSKELL publication for work of high academic quality. It aims at generating fresh scholarly inquiry and exposition in the Editorial Board fields of history, economics, sociology, demography, social anthropology, administration, law, political science, Jocelyn Alexander (Editor), University of Bristol. international relations, literature, and the natural sciences in Fareda Banda, School of Oriental and African Studies. so far as they relate to the human condition. It represents a Jo Beall (Editor), London School of Economics. deliberate effort to draw together the various disciplines in William Beinart, University of Oxford social science and its allied fields. 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Ken Wilson, Ford Foundation, New York. © 2001 Journal of Southern African Studies VOLUME 28 NUMBER | MARCH 2002 SPECIAL ISSUE: MALAWI Editors: John McCracken, Debby Potts and Harri Englund Introduction John McCracken The Politics of Historical and Social Science Research in Africa Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Soil Erosion and State Intervention into Estate Production in the Shire Highlands Economy of Colonial Malawi, 1891-1964 Wapulumuka Oliver Mulwafu Building Relevance: the Blantyre Congress, 1953 to 1956 Joey Power The Ambiguities of Nationalism: Flax Musopole and the Northern Factor in Malawian Politics, c. 1956-1966 John McCracken Disordering the Market: the Liberalisation of Burley Tobacco in Malawi in the 1990s Jan Kees Van Donge From Top-down to Bottom-up: the Difficult Case of the Blantyre City Fuelwood Project Ezekiel Kalipeni and Leo Zulu The Village in the City, the City in the Village: Migrants in Lilongwe Harri Englund Bewitching Land: the Role of Land Disputes in Converting Kin to Strangers and in Class Formation in Malawi Pauline E. Peters Expansion and Enclosure: Ritual Landscapes and the Politics of Space in Central Malawi Peter Probst Review Article Listening. Books from Zimbabwe Diana Auret, From Bus Stop to Farm Village. The Farm Worker Programme in Zimbabwe, M. L. Daneel, African Earthkeepers. Volume 1. Interfaith Mission in Earth-care, David Harold-Barry, They Stayed On. The Stories of Seven Jesuits Martyred in the Struggle for Zimbabwe, Irene McCartney, Children in Our Midst. Voices of Farmworkers’ Children, Save The Children, We Learn With Hope. Issues in Education on Commercial Farms in Zimbabwe, Mary Witoshynsky, The Water Harvester. Episodes From the Inspired Life of Zephaniah Phiri and Zimbabwe Women Writers, Women of Resilience. The Voices of Women Ex-combatants (Reviewed by TERENCE RANGER) Book Reviews Dorothy Mutizwa-Mangiza, Doctors and the State: the Struggle for Professional Control in Zimbabwe (Reviewed by JULIE LIVINGSTON) Pier M. Larson, History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement. Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822 (Reviewed by SOLOFO RANDRIANIJA) Deborah James, Songs of the Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa (Reviewed by JAMES FERGUSON) Jan-Bart Gewald, Herero Heroes. A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923 (Reviewed by DAG HENRICHSEN) James Suzman, ‘Things from the Bush’: A Contemporary History of the Omaheke Bushmen and Thomas Widlok, Living on Mangetti: ‘Bushman’ Autonomy and Namibian Independence (Reviewed by ANDREW B. SMITH) Benedict Carton, Blood From Your Children: the Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa (Reviewed by HEATHER HUGHES) Alan Morris, Bleakness and Light: Inner-city Transition in Hillbrow, Johannesburg (Reviewed by DEBORAH JAMES) VOLUME 28 NUMBER 2 JUNE 2002 South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: a Historical and International Perspective Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen Burgess Between Globalisation and (Post) Apartheid: the Political Economy of Restructuring in South Africa Pddraig Carmody ‘Full of Sound and Fury’: Three Decades of Parliamentary Politics in Mauritius Henry Srebrnik Parliamentary Committees in Zambia’s Third Republic: Partial Reforms; Unfinished Agenda Peter Burnell South Africa’s Democratisation and the Politics of Gay Liberation Sheila Croucher Complementary Oral and Written Narrative Conventions: Sindiwe Magona’s Autobiography and Short Story Sequence, ‘Women at Work’ Margaret J. Daymond The Use of Orality in the Short Stories of A. C. Jordan, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Njabulo Ndebele and Bessie Head Craig MacKenzie 347 Heated Debates over Crinolines: European Clothing on Nineteenth-century Lutheran Mission Stations in the Transvaal Kirsten Ruether Settler Homes, Manhood and ‘Houseboys’: an Analysis of Natal’s Rape Scare of 1886 Jeremy C. Martens The State and Community-based Natural Resource Management: the Case of the Moribane Forest Reserve, Mozambique Jessica Schafer and Richard Bell ‘If You Don’t Fish, You Are Not a Caprivian’: Freshwater Fisheries in Caprivi, Namibia Inge Tvedten No Fixed Abode: the Poorest of the Poor and Elusive Identities in Rural South Africa Michael de Jongh Book Reviews Brian Raftopoulos and Lloyd Sachikonye (eds) Striking Back: the Labour Movement and the Post Colonial State in Zimbabwe, 1980-2000 (Reviewed by FREEK SCHIPHORST) Martin Chanock, The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902—1936: Fear, Favour and Prejudice (Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER FORSYTH) Jock McCulloch, Black Peril, White Virtue. Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935 (Reviewed by DIANA JEATER) Donal Lowry (ed), The South African War Reappraised (Reviewed by ANDREW PORTER) Mohamed Adhikari (ed), Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909-1922 and Nigel Penn, Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth-Century Cape Characters (Reviewed by PAMELA SCULLY) Bhekizizwe Peterson, Monarchs, Missionaries and African Intellectuals: African Theatre and the Unmaking of Colonial Marginality (Reviewed by ToyiN FALOLA) Lyn Schumaker, Africanizing Anthropology (Reviewed by Robert J. GORDON) Veit Erlmann, Music, Modernity and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West (Reviewed by GRANT OLWAGE) Roger Southall (ed), Opposition and Democracy in South Africa (Reviewed by DARYL GLASER) VOLUME 28 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2002 SPECIAL ISSUE: CHANGING LIVELIHOODS Editors: Elizabeth Francis and Colin Murray Introduction Elizabeth Francis and Colin Murray Livelihoods Research: Transcending the Boundaries of Time and Space Colin Murray Proletarianisation, Agency and Changing Rural Livelihoods: Forced Labour and Resistance in Colonial Mozambique Bridget O’ Laughlin Rural Livelihoods, Institutions and Vulnerability in North West Province, South Africa Elizabeth Francis Extending the Grain Basket to the Margins: Spontaneous Land Resettlement and Changing Livelihoods in the Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe Admos Osmund Chimhowu Tracking Livelihood Change: Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Perspectives from North-east Ghana Ann Whitehead Differentiation and Diversification: Changing Livelihoods in Qwaqwa, South Africa, 1970-2000 Rachel Slater Survival or Growth? Temporal Dimensions of Rural Livelihoods in Risky Environments Bill H. Kinsey Beyond Red and School: Gender, Tradition and Identity in the Rural Eastern Cape Leslie Bank Book Reviews Norman Etherington, The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815--1854 (Reviewed by ALAN LESTER) Susan Newton-King, Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier 1760-1803 and Robert Ross, Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony 1750-1870. A Tragedy of Manners (Reviewed by KIRSTEN MCKENZIE) Karen Jochelson, The Colour of Disease: Syphilis and Racism in South Africa, 1880-1950 (Reviewed by SHANE DOYLE) Carol Ann Muller, Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women’s Performance in South Africa (Reviewed by iSABEL HOFMEYR) Isak Niehaus with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokane, Witchcraft, Power and Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld (Reviewed by ERIk BAHRE) VOLUME 28 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2002 SPECIAL ISSUE: MINORITIES AND CITIZENSHIP IN BOTSWANA Editors: Richard Werbner and Deborah Gaitskell Introduction: Challenging Minorities, Difference and Tribal Citizenship in Botswana Richard Werbner From a Phone Call to the High Court: Wayeyi Visibility and the Kamanakao Association’s Campaign for Linguistic and Cultural Rights in Botswana Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo Navigating the ‘Neutral’ State: ‘Minority’ Rights in Botswana Jacqueline S. Solway Cosmopolitan Ethnicity, Entrepreneurship and the Nation: Minority Elites in Botswana Richard Werbner Local Attitudes towards Citizenship and Foreigners in Botswana: an Appraisal of Recent Press Stories Francis B. Nyamnjoh Funerals and the Public Space of Sentiment in Botswana Deborah Durham and Frederick Klaits ‘We are the First People’: Land, Natural Resources and Identity in the Central Kalahari, Botswana Robert K. Hitchcock Mutable Identities: Moving beyond Ethnicity in Botswana Edwin N. Wilmsen Book Reviews Daryl Glaser, Politics and Society in South Africa; a Critical Introduction, Paul Maylam, South Africa's Racial Past; the History and Historiography of Racism, Segregation and Apartheid and Robert Ross, A Concise History of South Africa (Reviewed by BILL FREUND) Philip Bonner and Noor Nieftagodien, Kathorus: a History (Reviewed by PHILIPPE GERVIAS-LAMBONY) Saul Dubow (Editor), Science and Society in Southern Africa (Reviewed by ELIZABETH GREEN MUSSELMAN) Blair Rutherford. Working on the Margins: Black Workers, White Farmers in Postcolonial Zimbabwe (Reviewed by JOANN MCGREGOR) Sidsel Saugestad, The Inconvenient Indigenous. Remote Areas Development In Botswana, Donor Assistance and the First People of the Kalahari (Reviewed by JAMES SUZMAN) J. M. Burns, Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe, forward by Peter Davis (Reviewed by LUISE WHITE) David Pattison. No Room for Cowardice: a View of the Life and Times of Dambudzo Marechera (Reviewed by DREW SHAW) Contents and Author Index