TY - GEN T1 - Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania T2 - Eastern African studies (London, England) A2 - Maddox, Gregory A2 - Giblin, James Leonard A2 - Kimambo, Isaria N. LA - English PP - London : Athens PB - James Currey ; Ohio University Press YR - 2016 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1378161538 AB - Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history. In his conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo, a founding father of Tanzanian history, reflects on the efforts of successive historians to strike a balance between external causes of change and local initiative in their interpretations of Tanzanian history. AB - He shows that nationalist and Marxist historians of Tanzanian history, understandably preoccupied through the first quarter-century of the country's post-colonial history with the impact of imperialism and capitalism on East Africa, tended to overlook the initiatives taken by rural societies to transform themselves. AB - Yet there is good reason for historians to think about the causes of change and innovation in the rural communities of Tanzania, because farming and pastoral people have constantly changed as they adjusted to shifting environmental conditions. CN - GF729 SN - 9781782049838 SN - 1782049835 SN - 0821411330 KW - Human ecology : Tanzania : History. KW - Environmental policy : Tanzania. KW - Environmental protection : Tanzania. KW - Tanzania : Social conditions. KW - Tanzania : Economic conditions. KW - Tanzania : Politics and government. KW - Tanzanie : Conditions sociales. KW - Tanzanie : Conditions économiques. KW - Tanzanie : Politique et gouvernement. KW - Economic history KW - Environmental policy KW - Environmental protection KW - Human ecology KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Tanzania KW - History ER -