Symbols in stone : unravelling the mystery of Great Zimbabwe
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Symbols in stone : unravelling the mystery of Great Zimbabwe
Witwatersrand University Press, 1987
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
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Description
Great Zimbabwe was the largest and most important capital of a medieval Shona empire. In this booklet, a world authority presents a new interpretation of this famous African town. Using 16th-century eye-witness accounts of the Zimbabwe culture, together with Shona oral tradition and culture, Professor Huffman reconstructs the different uses of the stone enclosures and the meaning of many symbols, including the Zimbabwe birds and the celebrated conical tower.
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