ISBN:
0253002206
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9780253002204
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (413 pages)
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maps
Series Statement:
African Systems of Thought
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Beidelman, T.O Culture of Colonialism : The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru
DDC:
306.08996391
Keywords:
Kaguru (African people) Politics and government
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Kaguru (African people) Ethnic identity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Cultural policy
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Colonies ; Administration
;
Kolonier ; historia
;
Kulturell identitet ; historia
;
Kaguru (folk)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
Great Britain Colonies
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Administration
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Cultural policy
;
Tanzania
Abstract:
Culture FM; Culture intro; Culture ch1; Culture ch2; Culture ch3; Culture ch4; Culture ch5; Culture ch6; Culture epilogue; Culture conclusion; Culture appendices; Culture notes; Culture biblio; Culture index.
Abstract:
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 probl
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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