This paper contributes to our understanding of the spiritual and invisible aspects of African military landscapes through a historical and ethnographic study of Zimbabwe liberation war guerrillas' spiritual practices. Guerrillas mobilized and deployed their spiritual beliefs and practices in the execution of the 1970s liberation war against well equipped Rhodesian forces, and in subsequent deployments as members of the post-colonial national army. Guerrillas' understanding of their landscape of deployment as spiritual influenced their engagement with it's physical materials such as trees and caves and wild animals as active objects representing the ancestors. The paper argues that the spirituality of African military landscape challenges dominant western conceptualizations of military landscapes as passive sites that are dominated and shaped by violent military activities. Spirituality makes African military landscapes active and affective beyond the dictates of human [militay] action, therefore shaping and controlling ways in which the military engage with it.

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津巴布韦解放战争的精神暂时性

通过对津巴布韦解放战争游击队的精神实践的历史和人种学研究，本文有助于我们对非洲军事景观的精神和隐形方面的理解。游击队动员并部署了他们的精神信仰和实践，以进行1970年代针对装备精良的罗得西亚部队的解放战争，并随后作为后殖民国家军队的成员进行了部署。游击队对他们的部署景观作为精神的理解影响了他们对诸如树木，洞穴和野生动物等自然物质的接触，而这些动物是代表祖先的活跃物体。该论文认为，非洲军事景观的精神性挑战了西方主流的军事景观概念，这些概念是由暴力军事活动主导和塑造的被动场所。灵性使非洲军事景观超出了人类[军事]行动的要求，因此变得活跃而富有感情，因此塑造并控制了军队与之互动的方式。