Collecting Food, Cultivating People

Collecting Food, Cultivating People
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9780300225167
ISBN-13 : 0300225164
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Collecting Food, Cultivating People by : Kathryn Michelle De Luna

A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia. Contrary to popular conceptions that place farming at the heart of political and social change, political innovation in precolonial African farming societies was actually contingent on developments in hunting, fishing, and foraging, as de Luna reveals.

Collecting Food, Cultivating People

Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9780300218534
ISBN-13 : 0300218532
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Collecting Food, Cultivating People by : Kathryn Michelle De Luna

A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia. Contrary to popular conceptions that place farming at the heart of political and social change, political innovation in precolonial African farming societies was actually contingent on developments in hunting, fishing, and foraging, as de Luna reveals.

Cultivating Food Justice

Cultivating Food Justice
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9780262016261
ISBN-13 : 0262016265
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultivating Food Justice by : Alison Hope Alkon

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.

To Speak and Be Heard

To Speak and Be Heard
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780821447352
ISBN-13 : 0821447351
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis To Speak and Be Heard by : Holly Elisabeth Hanson

A history of a political practice through which East Africans have sought to create calm, harmonious polities for five hundred years. “To speak and be heard” is a uniquely Ugandan approach to government that aligns power with groups of people that actively demonstrate their assent both through their physical presence and through essential gifts of goods and labor. In contrast to a parliamentary democracy, the Ugandan system requires a level of active engagement much higher than simply casting a vote in periodic elections. These political strategies—assembly, assent, and powerful gifts—can be traced from before the emergence of kingship in East Africa (ca. 1500) through enslavement, colonial intervention, and anticolonial protest. They appear in the violence of the Idi Amin years and are present, sometimes in dysfunctional ways, in postcolonial politics. Ugandans insisted on the necessity of multiple voices contributing to and affirming authority, and citizens continued to believe in those principles even when colonial interference made good governance through building relationships almost impossible. Through meticulous research, Holly Hanson tells a history of the region that differs from commonly accepted views. In contrast to the well-established perception that colonial manipulation of Uganda’s tribes made state failure inevitable, Hanson argues that postcolonial Ugandans had the capacity to launch a united, functional nation-state and could have done so if leaders in Buganda, Britain, and Uganda’s first governments had made different choices.

Moving Crops and the Scales of History

Moving Crops and the Scales of History
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780300268423
ISBN-13 : 0300268424
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Moving Crops and the Scales of History by : Francesca Bray

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This book is a bold but approachable attempt to redefine historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”: the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop. The cropscape is a method of reconnecting the global with the local, the longue durée with microhistory, and people, plants, and places with abstract concepts such as tastes, ideas, skills, politics, and economic forces. Through investigating a range of contrasting cropscapes spanning millennia and the globe, the authors break open traditional historical structures of period, geography, and direction to glean insight into previously invisible actors and forces.

Wealth, Land and Property in Angola

Wealth, Land and Property in Angola
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9781316511503
ISBN-13 : 1316511502
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Wealth, Land and Property in Angola by : Mariana P. Candido

Explores the history of land dispossession, slavery, colonialism, and inequality in Angola, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

Roads Through Mwinilunga

Roads Through Mwinilunga
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 443
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ISBN-10 : 9789004408968
ISBN-13 : 9004408967
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Roads Through Mwinilunga by : Iva Peša

Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed. Using a wide range of archival and oral history sources, Iva Peša shows the relevance of Mwinilunga to broader processes of colonialism, capitalism, and globalisation. Through a focus on daily life, this book complicates transitions from subsistence to market production and dichotomies between tradition and modernity. Roads through Mwinilunga is a crucial addition to debates on historical and social change in Central Africa.

Acholi Intellectuals

Acholi Intellectuals
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780821442371
ISBN-13 : 0821442376
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Acholi Intellectuals by : Patrick William Otim

Patrick William Otim argues that the Acholi people of northern Uganda, who helped Europeans spread colonial rule and Christianity, were far more politically savvy than previously understood.

African Motors

African Motors
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781478021278
ISBN-13 : 1478021276
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis African Motors by : Joshua Grace

In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s and the early 2000s. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories, extensive archival research, and his ethnographic fieldwork as an apprentice in Dar es Salaam's network of garages, Grace counters the pervasive narratives that Africa is incompatible with technology and that the African use of cars is merely an appropriation of technology created elsewhere. Although automobiles were invented in Europe and introduced as part of colonial rule, Grace shows how Tanzanians transformed them, increasingly associating their own car use with maendeleo, the Kiswahili word for progress or development. Focusing on the formation of masculinities based in automotive cultures, Grace also outlines the process through which African men remade themselves and their communities by adapting technological objects and systems for local purposes. Ultimately, African Motors is an African-centered story of development featuring everyday examples of Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of social and technological wellbeing through movement, making, and repair.

Speaking with Substance

Speaking with Substance
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9783319910369
ISBN-13 : 3319910361
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Speaking with Substance by : Kathryn M. de Luna

This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data. The introduction lays out the supplemental approach, situating it in the broader context of similar interdisciplinary research methods in other world regions. Reflecting the arguments of the volume and its goal to document the process rather than the outcome of interdisciplinary collaboration, the volume is organized into two two-chapter case studies. Within each case study, the non-specialist develops an historical interpretation using their own research findings and published data from the other discipline.This chapter is followed by critical commentary from the specialist, a dialogue clarifying the commentary and specialists’ methods, and a second short historical interpretation that deploys insights from the supplemental approach. The conclusion reflects on the challenges of disciplinary conventions to interdisciplinary research and the contribution of the supplemental approach to efforts to know the history of oral societies in Africa and beyond