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Title: | Custodians of the land: ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania |
Editors: | Maddox, Gregory Giblin, James L. Kimambo, Isaria N. |
Year: | 1996 |
Pages: | 271 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Eastern African studies |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | James Currey |
ISBN: | 0852557256; 0821411330; 0821411349; 0852557248 |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | agricultural policy environment agriculture agricultural history |
Abstract: | Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this collective volume. Following the introduction (Custodians of the land: ecology and culture in the history of Tanzania, by James Giblin and Gregory Maddox), the book contains the following contributions: Population: a dependent variable, by Juhani Koponen; Environment & population growth in Ugogo, Central Tanzania, by Gregory Maddox; Environmental control & hunger in the mountains and plains of northeastern Tanzania, by Isaria N. Kimambo; Nature reorganized: ecological history in the plateau forests of the West Usambara Mountains, 1850-1935, by Christopher Conte; The precolonial politics of disease control in the lowlands of northeastern Tanzania, by James L. Giblin; 'We don't want terraces!': protest & identity under the Uluguru Land Usage Scheme, by Pamela A. Maack; Environment, community & history: 'Nature in the mind' in nineteenth & early twentieth-century Buha, western Tanzania, by Michele Wagner; Canoe-building under colonialism: forestry & food policies in the inner Kilombero Valley, 1920-1940, by Jamie Monson; Struggles for the land: the political & moral economies of land on Mount Meru, by Thomas Spear; Conclusion, by Isaria N. Kimambo. |