David Beach (historian)
| David Norman Beach | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 June 1943 Midlands, England, UK |
| Died | 15 February 1999 |
| Fields |
History of Zimbabwe Oral history |
| Institutions |
University of Cape Town University of Zimbabwe |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town |
| Known for | Precolonial history of the Mashona |
David Norman Beach (1943–1999) was a Zimbabwean historian. He worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the University of Zimbabwe and pioneered the documentation of oral traditions in Zimbabwe. 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.
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