ABSTRACT I argue that an increase in the number of oscillating rural-urban (ORU) and oscillating rural-diasporic (ORD) indigenous Zimbabweans’ interments at dilapidated homes has resulted in the genesis and upsurge in temporary tent huts in which African Indigenous Religion (AIR) burial and funeral rituals are performed. Research findings conclude that there is an increasing number of ORU and ORD indigenous Zimbabweans who respectively after their deaths in urban centres and in the diaspora have AIR burial rites performed in tent huts at their deceased parents’ ruined homes in the rural areas. Research findings also reveal that traditional burial societies died in Zimbabwe due to economic hardships and that necessitated the formation of Kinship Funeral Expenses Fund Groups (KFEFG) in urban centres by the ORU Zimbabweans and Funeral Insurance Policies (FIP) by Zimbabwean diasporians which replaced burial societies. The conclusion is that despite an increasing number of Zimbabweans living, educated and owning houses in urban centres in Zimbabwe and in foreign countries, they still regard their decrepit rural abodes as their spiritual home and a place for their burials when they die.

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在破旧的农村房屋 (matongo) 中埋葬摇摆不定的农村 - 城市和摇摆不定的农村 - 散居的津巴布韦土著：津巴布韦布赫拉区帐篷小屋和亲属丧葬费用基金组的起源案例研究

摘要 我认为，随着农村-城市（ORU）和农村-侨民（ORD）土著津巴布韦人在破旧房屋中安葬的数量增加，非洲土著宗教（AIR ) 举行葬礼和葬礼。研究结果得出结论，越来越多的 ORU 和 ORD 土着津巴布韦人分别在城市中心和散居地去世后，在他们已故父母在农村地区被毁坏的房屋的帐篷小屋中进行空中葬礼。研究结果还表明，津巴布韦的传统丧葬社团因经济困难而消亡，因此有必要由 ORU 津巴布韦人在城市中心成立亲​​属丧葬费用基金组 (KFEFG) 和由津巴布韦侨民取代丧葬社团的葬礼保险政策 (FIP) . 结论是，尽管越来越多的津巴布韦人在津巴布韦和国外的城市中心生活、接受教育和拥有房屋，但他们仍然将破旧的农村住宅视为他们的精神家园和死后安葬的地方。