Water brings no harm : management knowledge and the struggle for the waters of Kilimanjaro /

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In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro's Chagga-speaking peoples have long managed water by employing diverse knowledge: hydrological, technological, social, cultural, and political. Since the 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bender, Matthew V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
Chaga (African people) > Tanzania.
Water security > Tanzania > Kilimanjaro, Mount.
Water-supply > Tanzania > Kilimanjaro, Mount > Management.
Sécurité de l'eau > Tanzanie > Kilimandjaro (Mont)
Eau > Approvisionnement > Tanzanie > Kilimandjaro (Mont) > Gestion.
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
Chaga (African people)
Water security.
Water-supply > Management.
Tanzania.
Tanzania > Mount Kilimanjaro.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The giver of abundance and peace : water and society on the slopes of Kilimanjaro
  • The mountains of Jagga : encountering Africa's Olympus in the nineteenth century
  • Do not believe that every cloud will bring rain : water cooperation in the era of German colonialism, 1885/1918
  • From abundance to scarcity : rethinking the waterscape and local knowledge, 1923/48
  • Water brings harm : transformations in household water management, 1930/50
  • More and better water : emerging nationalisms and high modernist management, 1945/85
  • Water is our gift from God! : devolution and cost recovery in the neoliberal era
  • It is God's will, and also deforestation : global versus local in the disappearance of the glaciers
  • Conclusion.

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