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A history under siege : intensive agriculture in the Mbulu Highlands, Tanzania, 19th century to the present / Lowe Börjeson.
- Title
- A history under siege : intensive agriculture in the Mbulu Highlands, Tanzania, 19th century to the present / Lowe Börjeson.
- Author
- Börjeson, Lowe.
- Publication
- [Stockholm] : Dept. of Human Geography, Stockholm University, 2004.
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- Description
- 187 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The Iraqw'ar Da/aw area in the Mbulu Highlands of northern Tanzania has long been known for its intensive cultivation, and referred to as an "island" within a matrix of less intensive land use. The conventional explanation for its characteristics has been high population densities resulting from the prevention of expansion by hostility from surrounding pastoral groups, leading to a siege-like situation. Drawing on an intensive programme of interviews, detailed field mapping and studies of aerial photographs, early travellers' accounts and landscape photographs, this study challenges that explanation. The study concludes that the process of agricultural intensification has largely been its own driving force, based on self-reinforcing processes of change, and not a consequence of land scarcity." "The book is relevant to readers in Cultural and Historical Geography, African Studies, African History, Development Studies and Anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis / Stockholm studies in human geography, 0349-7003 ; 12
- Uniform Title
- Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in human geography ; 12.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Based on doctoral thesis--Stockholm University, 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introducing the study -- 2. A ridge and its landscape -- 3. Land use and settlement pattern in 1958 and 1988 -- 4. The regional context and colonial source material -- 5. Final discussion -- App. Comments on the use and processing of interview data on settlement and landscape change in the mapped area.
- ISBN
- 9122020950 (pbk.)
- 9789122020950 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006401114
- OCLC
- 56809336
- SCSB-12436459
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library