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Carriers of Culture Labor on Road 19th C East Africa Rockel Tanzania Nyamwezi
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject Area
- Transportation, Education, Business & Economics
- Personalized
- No
- Subject
- Commerce, Economic Conditions, General, Labor
- ISBN
- 9780325071336
- Publication Name
- Carriers of Culture : Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Series
- Social History of Africa Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Weight
- 20.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Heinemann
ISBN-10
0325071330
ISBN-13
9780325071336
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51076712
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Publication Name
Carriers of Culture : Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
Language
English
Subject
Commerce, Economic Conditions, General, Labor
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, Education, Business & Economics
Series
Social History of Africa Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2006-005584
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Sophomore
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
331.5/440967609034
Table Of Content
"Safari Leo!" Transitional Forms of Labour Pioneers: The Birth of a Labour Culture The Journey The Rise of the Professionals On Safari: The Culture of Work On Safari: The Culture of Leisure and Food "Home Is Near!" Contesting Power on Safari Customs in Common Conclusion Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The first history in English of caravan porters, the main means of transportation in precolonial Africa., Much writing about nineteenth century East Africa has been distorted by the legacy of post-Enlightenment thought as well as more insidious racist ideologies. Humanitarian lobbies throughout Western Europe, strongly influenced by positivist ideas, and campaigning to highlight the ravages of the slave trade, condemned Africa in their writings and propaganda to the periphery, outside "universal" history. Africa was reduced to a continent of slavery, in which the market, entrepreneurship and free wage labour could not exist. These ideas penetrated scholarly works and still survive in some guises. The consequence is that a variety of initiatives and forms of labour organization associated with the long distance trades in ivory and imported cloth have been overlooked by scholars, while the slave paradigm received widespread attention. Utilizing the conceptual tool of "crew culture" Rockel documents a large-scale African migrant labour system. Nyamwezi caravan porters from the interior, as well as coastal Zanzibaris and Waungwana, forged a unique way of life in which market values and experience of wage labour and the caravan safari combined with customarystandards and notions of honour derived from innovative reconceptualizations of tradition. The safari experience, commercial change, and interactions with peasant and pastoral communities along the trade routes, all contributed to the emergence of a unique East Africa modernity. This book can be read on various levels. It is at one and the same time a journey, a labour history, a story of African initiative and adaptation to modernity, and a contribution to a history of Tanzania and East Africa that gives due attention to intersocietallinkages, and networks. Rockel utilizes a variety of methodologies and theoretical approaches derived from neo-Marxist and postcolonial perspectives, as well as Africanist innovations in oral historiography and labour and gender studies. Drawing on such insights, Carriers of Culture develops and expands our understanding of the way that workers invent new and unique cultures to make sense of and control the labour process, create support networks including collective leisure activities, maximize and protect economic interests, and manage the labour market. The book is clearly written, and is illustrated with late nineteenth century photographs and artwork., Much writing about 19th-century East Africa has been distorted by the legacy of post-Enlightenment thought as well as by more insidious racist ideologies. Humanitarian lobbies throughout Western Europe, strongly influenced by positivist ideas, and campaigning to highlight the ravages of the slave trade, condemned Africa in their writings and propaganda to the periphery, outside universal history. Africa was reduced to a continent of slavery, in which the market, entrepreneurship and free wage labour could not exist. These ideas penetrated scholarly works and still survive in some guises. The consequence is that a variety of initiatives and forms of labour organization associated with the long distance trades in ivory and imported cloth have been overlooked by scholars, while the slave paradigm received widespread attention. Utilizing the conceptual tool of crew culture, Rockel documents a large-scale African migrant labour system. Nyamwezi caravan porters from the interior, as well as coastal Zanzibaris and Waungwana, forged a unique way of life in which market values and experience of wage labour and the caravan safari combined with customary standards and notions of honour derived from innovative reconceptualizations of tradition. The safari experience, commercial change, and interactions with peasant and pastoral communities along the trade routes, all contributed to the emergence of a unique East Africa modernity. This book can be read on a variety of levels It is a journey, a labour history, a story of African initiative and adaptation to modernity, and a contribution to a history of Tanzania and East Africa that gives due attention to intersocietal linkages, and networks. Rockel utilizes a variety of methodologies and theoretical approaches derived from neo-Marxist and postcolonial perspectives, as well as Africanist innovations in oral historiography and labour and gender studies. Drawing on such insights, Carriers of Culture develops and expands our understanding of the way workers invent new and unique cultures to make sense of and control the labour process, create support networks including collective leisure activities, maximize and protect economic interests, and manage the labour market. The book is clearly written, and is illustrated with late-19th-century photographs and artwork.
LC Classification Number
HD5856.A354R63 2006
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