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

Published Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [1990] ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : maps Series History e-book project Contents 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 Summary "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 women who earn their living by farming and who, at crucial historical moments, have organized political movements of the greatest long-term significance. Peasant Intellectuals also demonstrates that peasant society contains a rich body of alternative sources of political language from which future debates can be shaped. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET Analysis Anthropology Tanzania Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Peasants -- Tanzania -- Lushoto District -- Politics and government Shambala (African people) -- Politics and government Shambala (African people) -- Kings and rulers -- Folklore Shambala (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies Rain-making rites -- Tanzania -- Lushoto District Shambala language -- Political aspects -- Tanzania -- Lushoto District HISTORY. Peasants -- Politics and government Intellectual life Peasants Politics and government Rain-making rites Shambala language -- Political aspects Geschichte Landbevölkerung Ritus Sozialgeschichte Politieke antropologie. Shambala (volk) Boeren. Rites et cérémonies -- Tanzanie. Paysannerie -- Tanzanie. Chamba (peuple d'Afrique) -- Tanzanie -- Politique et gouvernement. Chamba (peuple d'Afrique) -- Moeurs et coutumes. Tanzania. politics. farmers. Shambala polity. 73.70 political anthropology: general. 73.31 agriculture, cattle breeding (ethnology) SUBJECT Lushoto District (Tanzania) -- Politics and government Subject Tanzania Tanzania -- Lushoto District Distrikt Lushoto Tansania Tanzanie -- Histoire. Schambala. Genre/Form Folklore Form Electronic book LC no. 90050086 ISBN 0299125203 9780299125202 0299125246 9780299125240 9780299125233 0299125238 1282622811 9781282622814 9786612622816 6612622814

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