Custodians of the Land: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania (Eastern African Studies) - Softcover

Kimambo, Isaria N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852557248 ISBN 13: 9780852557242

Verlag: James Currey, 1996

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Críticas:

The studies in this volume build upon one of the strongest traditions of ecological studies for any African nation. - Matthew Schoffeleers in JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA

Reseña del editor:

In his conclusion, Isaria Kimambo 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. He argues 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. Yet, he suggests, 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.

North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota

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• Verlag: James Currey
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0852557248
• ISBN 13: 9780852557242
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Maddox Gregory H., Maddox Professor Gregory