ethnogeographic

Such social plasticity and ethnogeographic diversity is not found in, and cannot be conveyed through, xivongo narratives, hence most women's indifference to committing these narratives to memory, and Lili's change of register when asked about her maternal kin: as daughter of a chief, she is supposed to remember her clan's history and to respect the xivongo narrative tradition, but her recollection of her mother's experiences exposes the gendered limits of the xivongo form.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005