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Autore: | Mavhunga Clapperton Chakanetsa <1972-> |
Titolo: | The mobile workshop : the tsetse fly and African knowledge production / / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (432 pages) |
Disciplina: | 614.5/33096891 |
Soggetto topico: | Tsetse-flies - Control - Social aspects - Zimbabwe |
Tsetse-flies - Control - Zimbabwe - History | |
Tsetse-flies - Ecology | |
Traditional ecological knowledge - Zimbabwe | |
Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Zimbabwe | |
Knowledge management - Zimbabwe | |
Soggetto non controllato: | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science | |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology | |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2018. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Preface: Before we begin: introducing mhesvi and ruzivo rwemhesvi -- How vanhu managed tsetse -- Translation into science and policy -- Knowing a fly -- How to trap a fly -- Attacking fly from within: parasitization and sterilization -- Exposing the fly to its enemies -- Cordon sanitaire: prophylactic settlement -- Traffic control: a surveillance system for unwanted passengers -- Starving the fly -- The coming of the organochlorine pesticide -- Bombing flies -- The work of ground spraying: incoming machines in vatema's hands -- DDT, pollution, and gomarara: a muted debate -- Chemoprophylactics -- Aftermaths -- A conclusion: Vatema as intellectual agents. |
Sommario/riassunto: | How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Mobile Workshop |
ISBN: | 0-262-34586-2 |
0-262-34585-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910524887803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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