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	Shona - Ethnos - Books about the Shona People
		Shona is a native language of Zimbabwe and the term is also used to identify those Bantu tribes in Southern Africa who spoke the Shona language.
		Shona is also a written standard language with a codified orthography and grammar.
		Shona are linguistically related to the central Bantu and most likely moved into present day Zimbabwe during the great Bantu expansion.
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Shona.htm (280 words)

	Art Shona, Zimbabwean Sculpture, A huge Collection
		Many of Zimbabwe's Shona sculptors attribute their ability to induction by a shave, a special skill or talent handed on to a Shona by members of his patrilineal fami1y or from an alien spirit outside of his lineage.
		Shona ontology does not include the structured worship of spirits, and their presence is seldom recognised or observed from the occasional propitiation ceremony.
		The importance of these beliefs to the Shona today is shown by the proliferation of independent churches in Zimbabwe which, taking a syncretic approach, have modified Christian forms of worship and doctrinal standpoints to accommodate Shona traditional beliefs with little or no conflict of interest.
	karaart.com /collections/shona/origins4.html (1011 words)

	A Critique of Process Theodicy from an African Perspective
		The Shona believe that upon death one’s spirit (the Shona word is mweya meaning breath or wind) leaves the body continuing to influence community life in the realm of the living-dead.
		It would trouble many Shona parents for a person to approach their child with compliments such as "What a beautiful baby!" Any event out of the ordinary is interpreted as an evil omen or the eruption of evil power into the midst of life.
		The people concerned experienced them as a threat to their whole existence, as a sign that something wrong had happened to cause the births, and that something worse still would happen to the whole community if the ‘evil’ were not removed" (ARP 117-118).
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2741 (4395 words)

	The African Conservancy Gallery
		Shona men have been creating their art for centuries, but the world is just now coming to realize its distinct character.
		In the Shona religion, there are two main types of spirits: good spirits (vadzimu) who are associated with recent ancestors and all that is ideal; and a variety of benevolent and malevolent wandering or shave spirits, associated with the spirits of neighboring people, Europeans or even animals.
		In organized political Shona states, power is centralized in a paramount chief who inherits his position through birth much in the same manner as a king.
	www.africanconservancy.org /member/shonapeople.htm (414 words)

	History of the Shona People :::: Bulawayo1872.com
		Shona people are internationally known for two art forms: stone sculpture and mbira music (mbira: an instrument made of a hollow gourd with metal reeds that the player plucks).
		There is a line of thought that suggests that the Shona people are descendants from one group of families, that was ruled by one paramount Chief.
		The Shona people as they are today are a fragmented horde of tribes with very tenuous bonds of unity between them.
	www.bulawayo1872.com /history/shona.htm (1503 words)

	Africa, Zimbabwe: Shona Sculptures
		The Shona are the oldest tribe in Zimbabwe and are believed to be the legendary guardians of King Solomon's mines.
		The Shona stone carvers are known as the "People of the Mist".
		For the most part, Shona sculptors are self-taught and their artistic skill has impressed art collectors and dealers whenever they have been first exposed to it.
	www.caroun.com /Sculpture/Africa/ShonaSculptures/ShonaSculptures.html (1230 words)

	Shona People
		Shona are best known for their beautifully adorned wooden headrests.
		Traditionally, Shona peoples lived in dispersed settlements, usually consisting of one or more elder men and their extended families.
		Vadzimu represent all that is ideal and moral about a Shona way of life and are usually associated with recent ancestors or with more remote culture heroes whose exact genealogy has been forgotten.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Shona.html (456 words)

	Shona Sculpture
		While not exclusively carved by the Shona people of Zimbabwe, its origin and persistence as an art form in Zimbabwe is a unique expression of Shona culture.
		As a dealer and collector of Shona sculpture and someone involved in the arts for much of his life, I have found it interesting that a dialogue has emerged within the ranks of Shona “collectors” and “authorities” regarding the authenticity of the sculpture and its adherence to a particular tradition or form.
		The Shona sculptors may well be influenced by their culture, beliefs and environment, but they are just as much individuals in terms of their creativity and ability as are their Western counterparts.
	www.shongia.com /16.html?psid=cc5a3b225cdd6f2b (2912 words)

	SDNHM Shona: Spirits in Stone
		Shona sculpture is part of permanent collections of the Rodin Museum, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Mankind, London; National Gallery of Zimbabwe; and the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt.
		Pablo Picasso, founder of the modernist movement, was an early admirer of Shona sculpture.
		The Shona people have been thriving in Southeastern Africa for more than 1,000 years, and have been sculpting for almost that long.
	www.sdnhm.org /exhibits/shona/index97.html (605 words)

	Mbira: Constraint and Mobility in Shona Society
		Shona do not forget the past; their problems are caused by the past and solved by the past.
		Shona have persisted through a millennium, and it is still possible to find traces of their ancient society in the music.
		The indirectness of Shona behavior and Shona music further breaks the chains of "Shona as constrained." Shona society is not constraining and rigid; their thinking is not forced to be done in definitive and restricting terms.
	phi.kenyon.edu /Projects/Ottenhoff/paper.htm (5721 words)

	Part 3: Implications and ImpactThe Use of Trees, Birds and Animal Behavior as Measures of Environmental Change by the ...
		In brief, the Shona occupy the greater part of Zimbabwe, except for the southern and southwestern portions, which are occupied by the Ndebele people.
		This is the background to this paper on the Shona people's use of trees, birds and certain types of animal behavior as measures or signals of environmental changes.
		Prior to this land pressure situation, the Shona people were able to determine soil fertility, and also the type of crops to grow in a particular type of soil.
	www.idrc.ca /en/ev-30850-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html (2706 words)

	African art stone sculptures and carvings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The native people were not allowed to live in the best part of their own land.
		Shona art has thrived in a marvelous way since that time, expressing legend and culture in the African experience.
		Shona sculpture is a profound expression of the African connection that leaps beyond time and space.
	www.redeaglegallery.com /zimbabwe.cfm (481 words)

	Shona language resources
		Shona The Shona and their ancestors have lived and died on the land of Southeastern Africa for more than 1000 years.
		Shona (or ChiShona) is a native language of Zimbabwe; the term is also used to identify those Kintu speaking peoples in Southern Africa who speak one of the Shona languages.
		Shona is a written standard language with an orthography and grammar that was codified during the early 20th century and fixed in the 1950s.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Shona.html (1440 words)

	Shona Language, Culture and Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Although Shona identity is believed to be a modern nationalistic invention, the people who define this cultural cluster posses a number of undeniable commonalties such as a shared politico-geographic location.
		The majority of Shona speakers in southern-east Africa reside in the national republic of Zimbabwe, and within the north-western region of Mozambique, with a number of isolated scattered segments in South Africa, Malawi Botswana, and Zambia.
		One of the most profound consequences of British colonial settlement was the displacement of the Shona people from their mineral rich lands to arable tribal trust (home) lands where most were forced to discontinue their traditional practice of subsistence farming.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~tonyat/language.html (357 words)

	Headrest [Zimbabwe; Shona people] (2001.759.2) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Shona sculptors have invested the southern African tradition of carved wooden headrests with an unparalleled degree of formal interpretation.
		The fact that nyora are so prominently and consistently featured on Shona headrests from all regions has led some to conclude that the headrests must have been, at least in part, conceived of as symbolic of the female gender.
		A multivalent symbol with numerous implications pertaining to Shona life and society, the headrest seems to be a visual acknowledgment of the importance of woman and, more specifically, wives.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/10/sfs/hod_2001.759.2.htm (556 words)

	Headrest [Zimbabwe; Shona people] (2001.759.4) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Shona sculptors from present-day South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique have contributed a rich range of formal and aesthetic interpretations.
		Among the Shona, headrests served as a kind of "pillow" used by adult males to sleep.
		The rectilinear composition of this headrest is a format associated with Shona sculptors from northeastern Zimbabwe and extending partially into Mozambique.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/10/sfs/hod_2001.759.4.htm (357 words)

	African American Registry: The Shona people, a soul in Africa!
		Traditionally, Shona people live in isolated settlements, usually consisting of one or more elder men and their extended families.
		It was not until the late 19th century that the peoples of this area speaking several mutually intelligible languages were united under the Shona name.
		Shave spirits are connected to populations living outside of Shona territory and may be connected to neighboring peoples, Europeans, or even animals.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2557/The_Shona_people_a_soul_in_Africa (525 words)

	ZIMBABWE
		The Shona Empire encompassed the land mass of Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa.
		The Shona people built hundreds of cities of stone, crowded with three story apartment complexes, housing tens of thousands of people.
		The wealth of Shona cities was derived from excising tariffs on trade routes and the sale of their cattle.
	www.internetpuppets.org /afrzimbabwe.html (580 words)

	african people shona
		The peoples of Africa are often described in terms of their ethnic background or their languages.
		Some of the peoples and associations presented here are so closely related that more than one topic heading may apply.
		For example, The Akan people are given a page of their own, yet the Asante (Ashanti) are also an Akan people, as are the Akuapem.
	www.archaeolink.com /african_people_shona.htm (218 words)

	Murungo Ano Penga Inc. - African Art Store
		The people that we now consider the Shona because of the name given to this grouping of people have been said to have started carving to express personal feelings and tribal beliefs more than 2000 years ago, during the times of Great Zimbabwe.
		There is mounting evidence that the presence of Shona sculpture in the 20th century began not in the 1950s as is popularly believed, but as early as the turn of the century and some would say as far back as the times of Great Zimbabwe over 2000 years ago.
		Evidence such as this gives credence to the theory of Shona Sculpture existing before McEwen arrived on the scene to initiate a new art form and in the 1950s encouraged a creative phenomenon that was already in process.
	www.murungogallery.com /catalog/content.php?id=History_Shona (766 words)

	PBS Kids' Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Great Zimbabwe was built by the Shona people over the course of 400 years, and at its height in the 13th century, its capital was home to as many as 18,000 people!
		It was built by the powerful and majestic Shona people, and thousands of people lived here.
		In the language of the Shona people, the word zimbabwe means "stone building".
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Kids/quest/pre_lc.htm (176 words)

	Solomon Murungu brings Zimbabwean music, culture to New England - The Boston Globe
		During the hourlong event, he'd explained to the group of about 20 people gathered in a conference room at the Cambridge Citywide Senior Center on Massachusetts Avenue that the instrument made of wood and iron is used by the Shona to communicate with their ancestors.
		Under the British, the Shona people had to reject their traditional ancestor worship and embrace the Church of England.
		In Shona culture, after death a person's spirit is allowed to roam for at least a year before the family welcomes it back and asks for its protection.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/08/15/song_of_solomon (1476 words)

	SDNHM Shona: About the People
		The Shona and their ancestors have lived and died on the land of Southeastern Africa for more than 1000 years.
		In order to cope with these challenges the Shona developed intricate social customs and beliefs that supported their desire to live together and thrive.
		The Shona believe that everything on earth contains a spirit, including the rock indigenous to their country.
	www.sdnhm.org /exhibits/shona/people.html (135 words)

	Voices from Africa
		But to the Shona, the term Mhondoro is much more than a reference to the dreaded animal commonly known as "The Honourable King of the Jungle." To the Shona, the term refers to the great ancestral spirit;what one may call the father of all spiritual mediums in a region.
		In a survey conducted at the peak of the 1991 drought, almost all respondents saw the drought as punishment by ancestral spirits and by the creator for a century-long erosion of cultural values and the total disregard of the advice and ceremonial roles of the Mhondoro and chiefs, by both the colonial and post-independence governments.
		It is clear that the history of the people of Zimbabwe, like that of many other countries in Africa, reflects a magnificent wealth of knowledge on sustainable use and development that can be improved upon and applied to achieve both conservation and development throughout the continent.
	www.unsystem.org /ngls/documents/publications.en/voices.africa/number6/vfa6.08.htm (2175 words)

	Research in African Literatures--The Interface of Orality and Literacy in the Zimbabwean Novel
		One observes the conflict in the writer's use of Shona vocabulary in English discourse to capture the uniqueness of certain concepts and experiences to the Shona people, such as names of medicines, greetings, religious personages, concepts of time,foodstuffs, domestic paraphernalia, and other items that he feels faithfully capture the mood of the time.
		The people leaped high in ecstasy to the clatter of the jingling magavhu and the monotonous rattle of the hosho.
		While the images derive from Shona oral traditions, the bipolar images of good and evil, peace and war, love and hate are consistent with British settler myths about the Shona and Ndebele, which depicted the Shona as cowards and the Ndebele as brave or bloodthirsty.
	iupjournals.org /ral/ral29-2.html (9495 words)

	Facts about Zimbabwe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Members of the Shona kingdom have always been cattle herders and agriculturalists, but when they came into this new and fertile territory they became firmly established powers with extensive trade relations.
		This is a variety of factoids, but I want to convey that Zimbabwe is a lot of things to a lot of people and how people come to common perspective on questions such as these has been a central idea to my research.
		The Shona followed the example in 1896, but both uprisings were crushed.
	people.cs.uchicago.edu /~mnvande/ba/zimbabwe.html (1083 words)

	Wonders of the African World - Episodes - Lost Cities of the South - Wonders
		The history and culture of the Shona people is contested and complex.
		The exact origin of the Shona is unknown: linguists generally contend that the diversity of dialects indicate a first millennium arrival, while historians usually date the arrival of Shona speakers to the Iron Age.
		The Shona comprised a mosaic of disparate chieftainships, similar in their languages and livelihoods - based on a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry - but with a diversity of religious beliefs and customs.
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Episodes/Epi6/6_wondr3.htm (266 words)

	Osteogenesis imperfecta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		People with OI either have less collagen than normal or an quality is poorer than normal.
		As collagen is an important protein in bone structure this impairment causes those with an condition to have weak or fragile bones.[1] As the genetic disorder, OI is an autosomal dominant defect.
		Most people with OI receive it from the parent but it can also be an individual (de novo or "sporadic") mutation.
	www.pilates.2minutes2.com /Osteogenesis_imperfecta (1153 words)

	eBay Guides - African Shona Stone Sculptures
		The History of Shona Stone Sculpture: In one sense, its history begins about seven hundred years ago, when the Shona people built large, complex stone palaces and fortifications.
		After deciding to house an art workshop inside the museum, he changed its emphasis from painting to sculpture in order to revive the legacy of Shona arts and to train a new generation of local artists, some of whom were not Shona but migrants from other areas of Southern Africa.
		Although Shona stone sculpture is made for export, the family circle pieces in particular are responses to market popularity and thus are sometimes produced quickly, carvers following a standard pattern rather than creating their own.
	reviews.ebay.com /African-Shona-Stone-Sculptures_W0QQugidZ10000000000759890 (1524 words)

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