Long Distance Trade and the Evolution of Sorcery among the Kerebe

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Title:	Long Distance Trade and the Evolution of Sorcery among the Kerebe
Author:	Hartwig, Gerald W.
Year:	1971
Periodical:	African Historical Studies
Volume:	4
Issue:	3
Pages:	505-524
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	Kerebe long-distance trade witchcraft Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/216527
Abstract:	The by traders from the East African coast and Zanzibar stimulated long-distance trade had a significant but little understood effect upon the values, relationships, and institutions of people living in the interior who were unexposed to these trading opportunities before the late 18th century. Described is the Kerebe involvement in this long-distance ivory trade and their role in relation to Zanzibari traders during the 19th-century. By focusing upon the evolution of sorcery, a consequence of long-distance trade is analyzed: social change within Kerebe society. The analysis reveals the permeating and disrupting factors inherent in the participation of long-distance trade. Notes, map.