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The Culture of Colonialism: The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru
T. O. Beidelman
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Description for The Culture of Colonialism: The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru
Hardback. Details colonial authority and progress in rural Africa Series: African Systems of Thought. Num Pages: 414 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; 3JJ; GTB; HBJH; HBLW; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 704.
What did it mean to be an African subject living in remote areas of Tanganyika at the end of the colonial era? For the Kaguru of Tanganyika, it meant daily confrontation with the black and white governmental officials tasked with bringing this rural people into the mainstream of colonial African life. T. O. Beidelman's detailed narrative links this administrative world to the Kaguru's wider social, cultural, and geographical milieu, and to the political history, ideas of indirect rule, and the white institutions that loomed just beyond their world. Beidelman unveils the colonial system's problems as it extended its authority into rural areas and shows how these problems persisted even after African independence.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
Series
African Systems of Thought
Number of Pages
414
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253002150
SKU
V9780253002150
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About T. O. Beidelman
T. O. Beidelman is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. He is author of Colonial Evangelism: A Socio-historical Study of an East African Mission at the Grassroots (IUP, 1982); The Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought (IUP, 1986); and The Cool Knife: Metaphors of Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual.
Reviews for The Culture of Colonialism: The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru
Although the Kaguru have been a backwater in world affairs, Beidelman's extensive contributions have made them a major subject of African studies. An important addition to understanding the local and global in anthropology. . . . Highly recommended.
Choice
We are fortunate to have this book. Not only is it a very useful addition to colonial studies, but it also demonstrates the value of decades of teaching and writing in assessing the centuries-long trajectory of political institutions in one area of Tanzania.
Journal of African History
This volume is a handsome addition to Beidelman's scholarship and serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students of colonialism, anthropology, political science, and African history.
American Ethnologist
Spring 2014
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Choice
We are fortunate to have this book. Not only is it a very useful addition to colonial studies, but it also demonstrates the value of decades of teaching and writing in assessing the centuries-long trajectory of political institutions in one area of Tanzania.
Journal of African History
This volume is a handsome addition to Beidelman's scholarship and serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students of colonialism, anthropology, political science, and African history.
American Ethnologist
Spring 2014
Journal of Interdisciplinary History