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David Norman Beach
Born28 June 1943
Midlands, England, UK
Died15 February 1999
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
Known forPrecolonial history of the Mashona[2]
Scientific career
FieldsHistory of Zimbabwe
Oral history
InstitutionsUniversity of Cape Town
University of Zimbabwe[1]

David Norman Beach (28 June 1943 – 15 February 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. ^ a b Malaba, M.Z. (1999). "David Norman Beach, 1943—1999". Africa. 69 (3). Edinburgh University Press: 448–449. JSTOR 1161217.
  2. ^ a b Pikirayi, I (1999). "David Beach, Shona history and the archaeology of Zimbabwe" (PDF). Zambezia. 26. Harare: University of Zimbabwe: 135–144. ISSN 0379-0622.
  3. ^ Beach, David (1998). "Cognitive Archaeology and Imaginary History at Great Zimbabwe". Current Anthropology. 39: 47–72. doi:10.1086/204698. S2CID 143970768.