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Nachituti's gift :

0299213633

9780299213633

0299213609

0299213641

9780299213602

9780299213640

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Nachituti's gift :

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economy, society, and environment in central Africa /

David M. Gordon.

Madison :

University of Wisconsin Press,

©2006.

1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) :

illustrations, maps.

Africa and the diaspora

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-290) and index.

Introduction : tenure, wealth, and environment -- I: Stories of conquest -- 1. Nachituti's gift : the Kazembe kingdom and owners of the land -- 2. The colonial net : chiefs on a colonial border -- 3. The meanings of wealth : people and things -- II: The fishery -- 4. Mpumbu : colonialism and conversation -- 5. Pale : states and patrons -- 6. Chisense : wealth and family -- Conclusion : tragic assumptions.

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Nachituti's Gift challenges conventional theories of economic development with a compelling comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and Congo from pre- to postcolonial times. Neoclassical development models conjure a simple, abstract progression from wealth held in people to money or commodities; instead, Gordon argues, primary social networks and oral charters like "Nachituti's Gift" remained decisive long after the rise of intensive trade and market activities. Interweaving oral traditions, songs, and interviews as well as extensive archival research, Gordon's lively tale is at once a subtle analysis of economic and social transformations, an insightful exercise in environmental history, and a revealing study of comparative politics.--Publisher description.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Nachituti's gift.

0299213609

Bemba (African people)-- Economic conditions.

Fish trade-- Luapula River Valley (Zambia and Congo)

Fisheries-- Economic aspects-- Luapula River Valley (Zambia and Congo)

Bemba (African people)-- Economic conditions.

Ecology.

Economic history.

Fischfang

Fish trade.

Fisheries-- Economic aspects.

General.

History & Archaeology.

HISTORY-- General.

HISTORY.

HISTORY.

Manners and customs.

Regions & Countries - Africa.

Soziale Situation

Wirtschaft

Luapula River Valley (Zambia and Congo), Economic conditions.

Luapula River Valley (Zambia and Congo), Environmental conditions.

Luapula River Valley (Zambia and Congo), Social life and customs.

Africa, Luapula River Valley.

Bemba.

Luapula

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HIS-- 047000

Gordon, David M.,1970-

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