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Custodians of the Land: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania(Eastern African Studies)

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The relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume. In his conclusion, Isaria Kimambo reflects on the efforts of successive historians to strike a balance betweenexternal causes of change and local initiative in their interpretations of Tanzanian history. He argues that nationalist and Marxist historians of Tanzanian history, understandably preoccupied through the first quarter-century ofthe country's post-colonial history with the impact of imperialism and capitalism on East Africa, tended to overlook the initiatives taken by rural societies to transform themselves. Yet, he suggests, there is good reason for historians to think about the causes of change and innovation in the rural communities of Tanzania, because farming and pastoral people have constantly changed as they adjusted to shifting environmental conditions.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Environmental and demographic change: population - a dependent variable, Juhani Koponen; environment and population growth in Ugogo, Gregory Maddox. Part 2 Environmental change and economic history in Tanzania's northern highlands: environmental control and hunger in 19th-century northeastern Tanzania, Isaria N. Kimambo; plateau forests of the West Usambara mountains, 1850-1935, Christopher Conte. Part 3 Politics and environmental change: the precolonial politics of disease control, James L. Giblin; "we don't want terraces!" - protest and identity under the Uluguru land usage scheme, Pamela A. Maack. Part 4 Environment and morality: environment, community and history - "nature in the mind" in 19th- and early-20th-century Buha, Western Tanzania, Michele Wagner; canoe-building under colonialism, Jamie Monson; struggles for the land on Mount Meru, Thomas Spear; conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo.

About the Author :
Gregory H. Maddox is a professor of history at Texas Southern University and author of Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History and co-editor of In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania and Custodians of the Land: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780852557259
  • Publisher: James Currey
  • Publisher Imprint: James Currey
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania
  • ISBN-10: 0852557256
  • Publisher Date: 16 Nov 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Eastern African Studies
  • Width: 138 mm


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