Wim M.J. van Binsbergen, Tears of Rain: Etnicity and History in Central Western Zambia, London/Boston: Kegan Paul International, 1992 -- Zambian edition in collaboration with Zambia Education Publishing House, Lusaka, 1994 (the preceding link takes you to a page where the book is described in detail and where you can order a discounted physical copy)

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• Tears of Rain: prelims
• Tears of Rain: ch. 1
• Tears of Rain: ch. 2
• Tears of Rain: ch. 3
• Tears of Rain: ch. 4
• Tears of Rain: ch. 5
• Tears of Rain: ch. 6
• Tears of Rain: Likota lya Bankoya -- final, edited Nkoya version
• Tears of Rain: Likota lya Bankoya -- English translation
• Tears of Rain: reference materials (appendices setting out the original manuscript of Likota lya Bankoya, text variants, genalogies, other Nkoya texts published, oral sources, archival sources, royal courts in 18th-19th c. CE western Zambia, References, Author index and Subject index/glossary

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