HIST 382 Chapter reading: Reading Moving Beyond Ethnic Framing
28 Jan 2019
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Political differentiation in the chiefdoms of the zulu-natal. There was the making of social categories in the zulu kingdom under the shaka. Two of these were amantungwa and amalala. The category of amalala pushes back against the categories of ethnicity that previously dominated socio-political analysis of pre-shaka chiefdoms. Groups constituted socio-political categories with identities that were moulded under specific historical circumstances from pre-existing notions about relationships and between the layers of people in society. South african students want the decolonization of south. Africa"s universities and have demanded for the transformation of the curriculum to include more pre-colonial history. The zuma government has made a shift towards giving a greater amount of recognition and support to tribal authorities in former bantustans. The closely related ethnic groups remain a basic categorization. Until the 1970s, the kingdom that emerged under the rule of. Shaka was portrayed as a homogeneous realm under a talented leader whose power came from coercion.
