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. ^ ^{a b} Malaba, M.Z. (1999). "David Norman Beach, 1943—1999". Africa (Edinburgh University Press) 69 (3): 448–449. JSTOR 1161217. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Pikirayi, I (1999). "David Beach, Shona history and the archaeology of Zimbabwe". Zambezia (Harare: University of Zimbabwe) 26: 135–144. ISSN 0379-0622. http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/Journal%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Zimbabwe/vol26n2/juz026002003.pdf. 
3. ^ Beach, David (1998). "Cognitive Archaeology and Imaginary History at Great Zimbabwe". Current Anthropology 39: 47. doi:10.1086/204698. 

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Name	Beach, David
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Date of birth	28 June 1943
Place of birth	Midlands, United Kingdom
Date of death	15 February 1999
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