Peasant intellectuals : anthropology and history in Tanzania / / Steven Feierman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957854003321
• Autore: Feierman Steven <1940->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1990
• ISBN: 9786612622816; 9780299125233; 0299125238; 9781282622814; 1282622811
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 340 p. ) : maps
• Disciplina: 967.8/22
• Soggetti: Peasants - Tanzania - Lushoto District; Rain-making rites - Tanzania - Lushoto District; Shambala (African people) - Kings and rulers; Shambala (African people) - Politics and government; Shambala (African people) - Rites and ceremonies; Shambala language - Political aspects - Tanzania - Lushoto District; Lushoto District (Tanzania) Politics and government; Tanzania Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-329) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tribute and Dependency in Late Nineteenth-Century Shambaai -- 3. Healing the Land and Harming the Land -- 4. Alternative Paths to Social Health in the Precolonial Kingdom -- 5. Colonial Rule and the Fate of the Intellectuals -- 6. Royal Domination and Peasant Resistance, 1947-1957 -- 7. The Struggle over Erosion Control: Women's Farming and the Politics of Subsistence -- 8. Gender, Slavery, and Chiefship: Peasant Attempts to Create an Alternative Discourse -- 9. Chiefs and Bureaucrats: Independence and the Fate of the Intellectuals -- 10. Rain in Independent Tanzania: A Drama Remembered but Not Performed -- Notes -- List of Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. But, do coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society or do peasants act in a world where elites define political issues? Peasant Intellectuals is based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 and includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society. Steven Feierman provides the history of the struggles to define the most basic issues of public political discourse in the Shambaa-speaking region of Tanzania. Feierman also shows that peasant society contains a rich body of alternative sources of political language from which future debates will be shaped.