Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania /

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Imprint:Athens : Ohio University Press, 1996.
Description:xiv, 271 p.
Language:English
Series:Eastern African studies
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2340236
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Other authors / contributors:Maddox, Gregory.
Giblin, James Leonard.
Kimambo, Isaria N.
ISBN:0821411330 (cloth)
0821411349 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Custodians of the Land - Ecology & Culture in the History of Tanzania / James Giblin and Gregory Maddox
  • Pt. 1. Environmental & Demographic Change. 1. Population: A Dependent Variable / Juhani Koponen. 2. Environment & Population Growth: In Ugogo, Central Tanzania
  • Pt. 2. Environmental Change & Economic History: In Tanzania's Northern Highlands. 3. Environmental Control & Hunger: In the Mountains & Plains of Northeastern Tanzania / Isaria N. Kimambo. 4. Nature Reorganized: Ecological History in the Plateau Forests of the West Usambara Mountains 1850-1935 / Christopher Conte
  • Pt. 3. Politics & Environmental Change. 5. The Precolonial Politics of Disease Control: In the Lowlands of Northeastern Tanzania / James L. Giblin. 6. 'We Don't Want Terraces!': Protest & Identity under the Uluguru Land Usage Scheme / Pamela A. Maack
  • Pt. 4. Environment & Morality. 7. Environment, Community & History: 'Nature in the Mind' In Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Buha, Western Tanzania / Michele Wagner. 8. Canoe-Building Under Colonialism: Forestry & Food Policies in the Inner Kilombero Valley 1920-40 / Jamie Monson. 9. Struggles for the Land: The Political & Moral Economies of Land on Mount Meru / Thomas Spear
  • Conclusion / Isaria N. Kimambo.