Conceived by a group of artists active in Zambia. It is the first popular history of Zambian art, and a representation of the development of art in Zambia from its pre-historic origins, through the colonial era to modern times. Beautifully produced, the book presents information collected through the Zambia National Visual Arts Council formed in 1989 and details the work of the country's active artists, including their own articles about art in Zambia. 126pp, ZAMBIA. BOOKWORLD PUBLISHERS.

An in-depth description of these initiation rites and analysis of their meaning and relevance for Zambian women. Despite new types of initiation rites and wedding ceremonies, such as Christian weddings and kitchen parties, based on Christian ideas and ideas of modernity, traditional initiation rites remain the central institution that construe female Zambian identity. Initiation rites emphasize female fertility, but also the importance of inter-human relationships, necessary for procreation, as well as relationships with the ancestral spirits, and women's central religious roles. 358pp, GERMANY

Explores Zambia's culture, with an eye toward its historical experiences and its particular endowments. It focuses on how traditional and modern interact, and sometimes collide, in the country through topics such as religion, gender roles and family, cuisine, the arts, literature, and more. 168pp, USA. GREENWOOD PRESS.

A study of anthropological change and the history of the Bemba people of Northern Zambia, from 1890 to 1990, it reconstructs agricultural history, practices and knowledge, and looks at factors facilitating migration. 256pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Lists sexual practices and beliefs among a cross-section of ethnic groups in Zambia. Index, bib, gloss, b/w illus, 317pp, ZAMBIA. MINTA PUBLISHERS.

Breaking away from traditional ethnographic accounts often limited by theoretical frameworks and rhetorical styles, this study offers an insider's view into the day-to-day lives of a self-selected group of male friends within this society in northern Zambia. During his two decades of fieldwork in this region, James Pritchett followed a group of Lunda-Ndembu males, here called Amabwambu (the friends), revealing the importance of the clique both as a principal agent for receiving and interpreting information from and about the world, and as a place where strategies could be hatched, tested, and applied. Viewing friendship, versus kinship, as a critical rather than peripheral element of the Lunda-Ndembu and other groups, the author offers new insights into the ways social structures are able to stay viable even in the face of radical change. 320pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS.

Ethnography of the Gwembe Tonga people of rural Zambia, exploring what happens to kinship ties in times of famine. The Tonga, a matrilineal Bantu-speaking society, had long lived and farmed along the banks of the Zambezi River, but when the Kariba Dam was completed and the river valley was flooded in 1958, approximately 57,000 people were forcibly relocated. All of southern Africa has suffered from severe droughts in the last three decades, and the Gwembe Valley has proved particularly susceptible to failed harvests and sociopolitically and ecologically triggered crises. The work of survival for the Gwembe Tonga includes difficult decisions about how to distribute inadequate resources among family members. In extreme circumstances, often the only resources at peoples disposal are social support networks. Cliggetts book tells a story about how people living in environmentally and economically dire circumstances manage their social and material worlds to the best of their ability, sometimes at the cost of maintaining kinship bonds, a finding that challenges current notions of family among indigenous people, especially in rural Africa. Index, bib, notes, b/w photos, 193pp, USA. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A study of urban life in the Zambian capital. Hansen describes how the inhabitants of a low income settlement have adapted material, social and cultural resources in their efforts to make a living against a background of rapid development. She argues that African urbanism is not purely a product of colonialism, as much of Western social science has tended to believe, but a result of a wide variety of local and foreign influences. Index, bib, notes, b/w photographs, tables, maps, xii, 228pp, USA. COLUMBIA U P.

A survey of the society, history and customs of the Lozi of Western Zambia. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1998 0823920151 Hardback

Source material gathered by the Central African Oral History Research unit to record the customs and oral history of the Luchazi people of Angola, the Congo, Namibia and Zambia. Map, 256pp, ZAMBIA. CHIKOTA CHA LUCHAZI ASSOCIATION.

1998 NO ISBN Paperback

Shows how the Lunda-Zdembu people of north-western Zambia have justified innovations to their cultural identity and practices by establishing conceptual similari-ties to long-standing traditions. 2 maps, 11 b/w photos, 22 tables, notes, bib, index, 377pp, USA . UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS.

Reveals the beauty and complexity of the remarkable masquerade traditions of the Chokwe, Mbunda, Lunda, Lwena/Luvale, and Luchazi peoples who live in the Three Corners region of northwestern Zambia, northeastern Angola, and southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The distinct yet overlapping mask types and styles used by these groups reflect their continual interaction and demonstrate the constant reformulation of visual and performance genres. 84pp, 90 col illus, USA. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Study of Tonga craft work through illustrations of the works and short textual descriptions, which describe objects in terms of their place in Tonga material culture. B/w illus, 100pp, ZAMBIA. MISC PUBLISHERS ZAMBIA.

Listing of Zambian names by region, language group, gender and naming circumstance. Map, notes, 140pp, ZAMBIA. JULUBBI ENTERPRISES.

2006 9789982825085 Paperback