Peasant intellectuals : anthropology and history in Tanzania /

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Author / Creator:	Feierman, Steven, 1940-
Imprint:	Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1990.
Description:	xii, 340 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:	Peasantry -- Tanzania -- Lushoto District -- Politics and government. Shambala (African people) -- Politics and government. Shambala (African people) -- Kings and rulers -- Folklore. Shambala (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies. Rain-making rites -- Tanzania -- Lushoto District. Shambala language -- Political aspects -- Tanzania -- Lushoto District. Lushoto District (Tanzania) -- Politics and government.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10516023

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Other authors / contributors:	American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN:	0299125203 0299125246
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and index. Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Table of 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 Polities 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

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