David Beach (historian)
Zimbabwean historian
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| Intro | Zimbabwean historian | |
| Places | Zimbabwe | |
| was | Historian | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Birth | 28 June 1943 | |
| Death | 15 February 1999 (aged 55 years) |
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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.