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Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania /

"Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history." "In his conclusion, Isaria N....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maddox, Gregory, Giblin, James Leonard, Kimambo, Isaria N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Athens : James Currey ; Ohio University Press, 1996.
Colección:Eastern African studies (London, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania / James Giblin & Gregory Maddox
  • pt. 1. Environmental & demographic change
  • Introduction
  • 1. Population : a dependent variable / Juhani Koponen
  • 2. Environment & population growth in Ugogo, Central Tanzania
  • pt. 2. Environmental change & economic history in Tanzania's northern highlands
  • Introduction
  • 3. Environmental control & hunger in the mountains & plains of northeastern Tanzania / Isaria N. Kimambo
  • 4. Nature reorganized : ecological history in the plateau forests of the west Usambara Mountains, 1850-1935 / Christopher Conte
  • pt. 3. Politics & environmental change
  • Introduction
  • 5. The precolonial politics of disease control in the lowlands of northeastern Tanzania / James L. Giblin
  • 6. 'We don't want terraces' : protest & identity under the Uluguru land usage scheme / Pamela A. Maack
  • pt. 4. Environment & mortality
  • Introduction
  • 7. Environment, community & history : 'nature in the mind' in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Buha, western Tanzania / Michele Wagner
  • 8. Canoe-building under colonialism : forestry & food policies in the inner Kilombero Valley, 1920-40 / Jamie Monson
  • 9. Struggles for the land : the political & moral economies of land on Mount Meru / Thomas Spear
  • Conclusion/ Isaria N. Kimambo.