Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania /
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| Imprint: | London : James Curry ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eastern African studies Eastern African studies (London, England) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105144 |
| Summary: | 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 volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history. <br>In his conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo, a founding father of Tanzanian history, reflects on the efforts of successive historians to strike a balance between external causes of change and local initiative in their interpretations of Tanzanian history. <br>He shows that nationalist and Marxist historians of Tanzanian history, understandably preoccupied through the first quarter-century of the country's post-colonial history with the impact of imperialism and capitalism on East Africa, tended to overlook the initiatives taken by rural societies to transform themselves. <br>Yet there is good reason for historians to think about the causes of change and innovation in the rural communities of Tanzania, because farming and pastoral people have constantly changed as they adjusted to shifting environmental conditions. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058507688X 9780585076881 0821411330 0821411349 0852557256 0852557248 9780821411339 9780821411346 9780852557259 9780852557242 9780821440056 0821440055 9781782049838 1782049835 |