Peasant Intellectuals Anthropology and History in Northern Tanzania

Name: Peasant Intellectuals Anthropology and History in Northern Tanzania
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ISBN: 9780299125202

ISBN-10: 0299125203

ISBN-13: 9780299125202

Edition: 1990

Authors: Steven Feierman

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Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. Debate has continued, though, on whether coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society, or whether peasants act in a world where political issues are defined by elites. Based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 that includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society, Peasant Intellectuals aims to alter the perspective from which anthropologists, historians, and political scientists study both cultural systems and rural politics.

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List price: $49.50
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Language: English



Maps


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Tribute and Dependency in Late Nineteenth-Century Shambaai


Healing the Land and Harming the Land


Alternative Paths to Social Health in the Precolonial Kingdom


Colonial Rule and the Fate of the Intellectuals


Royal Domination and Peasant Resistance, 1947-1957


The Struggle over Erosion Control: Women's Farming and the Polities of Subsistence


Gender, Slavery, and Chiefship: Peasant Attempts to Create an Alternative Discourse


Chiefs and Bureaucrats: Independence and the Fate of the Intellectuals


Rain in Independent Tanzania: A Drama Remembered but Not Performed


Notes


List of Interviews


Bibliography


Index