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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania.
Trade ReviewThe studies in this volume build upon one of the strongest traditions of ecological studies for any African nation. -- Matthew Schoffeleers * JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Environmental and demographic change: population - a dependent variable, Juhani Koponen; environment and population growth in Ugogo, Gregory Maddox. Part 2 Environmental change and economic history in Tanzania's northern highlands: environmental control and hunger in 19th-century northeastern Tanzania, Isaria N. Kimambo; plateau forests of the West Usambara mountains, 1850-1935, Christopher Conte. Part 3 Politics and environmental change: the precolonial politics of disease control, James L. Giblin; "we don't want terraces!" - protest and identity under the Uluguru land usage scheme, Pamela A. Maack. Part 4 Environment and morality: environment, community and history - "nature in the mind" in 19th- and early-20th-century Buha, Western Tanzania, Michele Wagner; canoe-building under colonialism, Jamie Monson; struggles for the land on Mount Meru, Thomas Spear; conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo.
