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Record Nr.

UNISA996248148103316

Autore

Feierman Steven <1940->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1990

ISBN

0-299-12523-8

1-282-62281-1

9786612622816

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.