Peasant Intellectuals Anthropology and History in Tanzania

Name: Peasant Intellectuals Anthropology and History in Tanzania
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ISBN: 9780299125240

ISBN-10: 0299125246

ISBN-13: 9780299125240

Edition: 1990 (Reprint)

Authors: Steven M. Feierman

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Peasant Intellectuals will dramatically alter the perspective from which anthropologists, historians, and political scientists study both cultural systems and rural politics. Based on 25 years of research that includes interviews with hundreds of people from all social levels, Steven Feierman gives us the history of the struggles to define the most basic issues of public discourse in the Shambaa-speaking region of Tanzania. Over the past 150 years ruling chiefs and dissenting peasants have debated what it is that enables some regimes to bring life rather than death, prosperity rather than hunger, justice rather than inequity. Feierman focuses on the role of peasant intellectuals -- men and…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 11/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
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