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Claiming Civic Virtue

Gendered Network Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania

By: Jan Bender Shetler

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Claiming Civic Virtue

Gendered Network Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania

By: Jan Bender Shetler

Among communities in the Mara region of Tanzania, it is considered men’s responsibility to maintain “history.” But when Jan Bender Shetler’s questions turned to specific familial connections within the village, she discovered her male informants had to occasionally leave the room—to ask their wives for clarification. The result is an original and wide-ranging investigation of the gendered nature of historical memory and its influence on the development of the region over the past 150 years. Shetler’s exploration of these oral traditions and histories opens exciting new vistas for understanding how women and men in this culture tell their stories and assert their roles as public intellectuals—with important implications for research in African and gender studies, and the history of ethnicity and nationalism.

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University of Wisconsin Press

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0299322904

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9780299322908

Imagining Serengeti

A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

By: Jan Bender Shetler

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Imagining Serengeti

A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

By: Jan Bender Shetler

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.

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Ohio University Press

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0821442430

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9780821442432

Imagining Serengeti

A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

By: Jan Bender Shetler

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A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

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Claiming Civic Virtue

Claiming Civic Virtue

Imagining Serengeti

Imagining Serengeti

Imagining Serengeti

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