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Author Moore, Henrietta L., 1957-

Title Cutting down trees : gender, nutrition, and agricultural change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 / Henrietta L. Moore, Megan Vaughan
Published Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; London : J. Currey ; Lusaka : University of Zambia Press, 1994

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Description xxvi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Social history of Africa
Social history of Africa.
Contents 5. Developing Men: The Creation of the Progressive Farmer. Colonial Development and the Aspirant Farmer. The Economics of Farming Schemes and the Politics of Settlement. Discourses of Development. The Mungwi Scheme. The Politics of Development -- 6. Migration and Marriage. Cycles and Circulation: The Real Nature of Labor Migration. The Changing Meanings of Marriage, Service, and Labor. Married Men and Abandoned Women. Residence and Remittances: The End Products of Labor Migration -- 7. Working for Salt: Nutrition in the 1980s. Women's Views on Diet and Nutrition. Consumption and Cash. Community, Kinship, and Sharing. Women, Work and Weaning -- 8. From Millet to Maize: Gender and Household Labor in the 1980s. The Politics of Land Use and Land Supply. Gender and Household Labor. Making Ends Meet: Agricultural and Nonagricultural Pursuits
Introduction: In and Out of Context: The Problems of a Re-Study. Locating the Study and Providing a Context. Writing and Context. Narrative Contradictions -- 1. The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: History and Anthropology. Chiefly Power and Bemba Identity. Citemene and Masculinity. New Forms of Production and Control -- 2. The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: Ecology and Agriculture. North and South, Large and Small: Types and Typologies of Citemene. Environmental Adaptations: Land Preparation and Carrying Capacity. The Cultivation of Citemene Gardens. Cassava and Maize: The Changing Nature of Citemene -- 3. Relishing Porridge: The Gender Politics of Food. Household Consumption and Diet in the 1930s. Kinship and Food From the 1940s to the 1960s -- 4. Cultivators and Colonial Officers: Food Supply and the Politics of Marketing. Variations and Variability: Multiple Agricultural Strategies. The Politics of Marketing: Contradictions in the Provincial Economy
Analysis Economic conditions History
Zambia
Economic conditions History
Zambia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index
Subject Bemba (African people) -- Agriculture.
Bemba (African people) -- Economic conditions.
Bemba (African people) -- Nutrition.
Food supply -- Zambia -- Northern Province.
Agriculture -- Zambia -- History.
Bemba (African people) -- Agriculture.
Bemba (African people) -- Economic conditions.
Bemba (African people) -- Nutrition.
Food supply -- Zambia -- Northern Province.
Sex role -- Zambia.
SUBJECT Northern Province (Zambia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83196913 -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736
Author Vaughan, Megan.
LC no. 93005650
ISBN 0435080881 (cloth)
0435080903 (paper)
0852556128 (James Currey paper)
0852556624 (James Currey Cloth)