The mobile workshop : the tsetse fly and African knowledge production / / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

• Autore: Mavhunga Clapperton Chakanetsa <1972->
• 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
• Serie: MIT Press scholarship online.