Eating Ashes How Zulu Subsistence Methods and Culture Changed After the Anglo-Zulu War

ANT101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Eating Ashes: How Zulu Subsistence Methods and Culture Changed After the Anglo-Zulu War

The Zulu people of South Africa made an unprecedented development from a single clan of pastoralists much like the other clans and tribes in the area of modern KwaZulu-Natal (Sithole, 2002. "Zulu Orientation". para. 1) to a great nation with the rise of King Shaka in the 1820's (Etherington, 2004. p. 159). Through revolutionary tactics begun by his predecessor Chief Tingeswio, King Shaka united all of the tribes in the area "under the name of Zulus" (Etherington, 2004. p. 159). After the defeat of the Zulu nation by the British in the 1880's (Sithole,...