The Sonjo of Tanganyika
The Sonjo of Tanganyika

Author: Robert F. Gray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0429958188

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Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and its implications explored. The Sonjo, a Bantu-speaking people isolated among cattle pastoralists of what was Northern Tanganyika, are remarkable for their complex irrigation system and political organization. The inter-connections between the irrigation system, the religious cult of a culture hero, and the special features of their social organization are at the core of this analysis.

Imagining Serengeti
Imagining Serengeti

Author: Jan Bender Shetler

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2007-06-15

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0821442430

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Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and analysis that is forceful and compelling, Jan Bender Shetler brings the landscape memory of the Serengeti to life. She demonstrates how the social identities of western Serengeti peoples are embedded in specific spaces and in their collective memories of those spaces. Using a new methodology to analyze precolonial oral traditions, Shetler identifies core spatial images and reevaluates them in their historical context through the use of archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, ecological, and archival evidence. Imagining Serengeti is a lively environmental history that will ensure that we never look at images of the African landscape in quite the same way.

The Sonjo of Tanganyika, an Anthropological Study of an Irrigation-based Society; 0
The Sonjo of Tanganyika, an Anthropological Study of an Irrigation-based Society; 0

Author: Robert F 1912- Gray

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781013932571

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Tree Where Man Was Born
The Tree Where Man Was Born

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0143106244

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From the daily lives of wild herdsmen and the drama of predator kills to the field biologists investigating Africa's wild creatures and the anthropologists seeking humanity's origins in the rift valley, this National Book Award finalist is a classic of journalistic observation.

The Family Estate in Africa
The Family Estate in Africa

Author: Robert F. Gray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1136529055

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Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family, analysing it as a process. In the seven different societies described in East Africa, the Congo and the Transvaal the changing nature of the distribution of rights in the family property and resources is directly linked with the growth and change of the family itself. First published in 1964.

The Sonjo of Tanganyika, an Anthropological Study of an Irrigation-based Society
The Sonjo of Tanganyika, an Anthropological Study of an Irrigation-based Society

Author: Robert F 1912- Gray

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781014324092

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Telling Our Own Stories
Telling Our Own Stories

Author: Shetler

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-11

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 9004492348

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In this collection of ethnic group histories, written by authors from the Mara Region of Tanzania, local people tell their stories as a way to inspire development that builds on the strengths of the past. It combines histories from the small, but closely related, ethnic groups of Ikizu, Sizaki, Ikoma, Ngoreme, Nata, Ishenyi and Tatoga in South Mara, east of Lake Victoria and west of Serengeti National Park. Many of the authors compiled their stories by meeting with groups of elders. They were concerned to preserve history for the next generation who had not taken the time to learn the stories orally. The stories were written in Swahili and translated into English with annotations and an introduction so that readers not familiar with this region might also share in the experience. It also includes transcriptions of oral interviews with some of the same stories to get a sense of the ongoing conversions about the past. This collection makes local history told in a local idiom accessible to students of African history interested in social memory and the creation of ethnicity.