Peasant intellectuals : anthropology and history in Tanzania / Steven Feierman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feierman, Steven, 1940-

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Tanzania--Lushoto District.

Peasants.

Rain-making rites--Tanzania--Lushoto District.

Rain-making rites.

Shambala (African people)--Kings and rulers--Folklore.

Shambala (African people).

Shambala (African people)--Politics and government.

Shambala (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Shambala language--Political aspects--Tanzania--Lushoto District.

Shambala language.

Lushoto District (Tanzania)--Politics and government.

Lushoto District (Tanzania).

Tanzania--Intellectual life.

Tanzania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 340 p. ) maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. But, do coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society or do peasants act in a world where elites define political issues? Peasant Intellectuals is based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 and includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society. Steven Feierman provides the history of the struggles to define the most basic issues of public political discourse in the Shambaa-speaking region of Tanzania. Feierman also shows that peasant society contains a rich body of alternative sources of political language from which future debates will be shaped.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Tribute and Dependency in Late Nineteenth-Century Shambaai

3. Healing the Land and Harming the Land

4. Alternative Paths to Social Health in the Precolonial Kingdom

5. Colonial Rule and the Fate of the Intellectuals

6. Royal Domination and Peasant Resistance, 1947-1957

7. The Struggle over Erosion Control: Women's Farming and the Politics of Subsistence

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

9. Chiefs and Bureaucrats: Independence and the Fate of the Intellectuals

10. Rain in Independent Tanzania: A Drama Remembered but Not Performed

Notes

List of Interviews

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-329) and index.

ISBN:

9786612622816

9780299125233

0299125238

9781282622814

1282622811

OCLC:

317459530

Publisher Number:

2027/heb02591 hdl