David Beach (historian)

David Norman Beach
Born 28 June 1943
Midlands, United Kingdom
Died 15 February 1999
Fields History of Zimbabwe
Oral history
Institutions University of Cape Town
University of Zimbabwe[1]
Alma mater University of Cape Town
Known for Precolonial history of the Mashona[2]

David Norman Beach (1943–1999) was a Zimbabwean historian.[1] He worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the University of Zimbabwe and pioneered the documentation of oral traditions in Zimbabwe.[2] In his work on Great Zimbabwe, Beach has promoted the interpretation of the different complexes as dwellings of successive rulers, opposing the structuralist tradition favoured by historians such as Huffman.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Malaba, M.Z. (1999). "David Norman Beach, 1943—1999". Africa (Edinburgh University Press) 69 (3): 448–449. JSTOR 1161217.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pikirayi, I (1999). "David Beach, Shona history and the archaeology of Zimbabwe" (PDF). Zambezia (Harare: University of Zimbabwe) 26: 135–144. ISSN 0379-0622.
  3. ↑ Beach, David (1998). "Cognitive Archaeology and Imaginary History at Great Zimbabwe". Current Anthropology 39: 47. doi:10.1086/204698.