Explores the world of a coastal Tanzanian peasant and the significance of the spirits of land and sea in his life. A vivid picture of Swahili society by an experienced anthroplogist. B/w photos, notes, bib, index, 260pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Examines the cultural and social context of breastfeeding among the Gogo women of the Cigongwe's village in Tanzania, as part of the Paediatric Programme of Doctors with Africa, based in Padua. The focus is on mothers' behaviour and postpartum taboos as key elements in Gogo understanding of the vicissitudes of the breast feeding process. This nutritional period is subject to many different events both physical and social that may upset the natural and intense link between mother and child. Any violation of cultural norms, particularly those dealing with sexual behaviour, marriage and reproduction, can, in the eyes of the Gogo, put at risk the correct development of an infant with serious consequences both for the baby's health as well as for the woman's image as mother and wife. index, bib, 176pp, UK. BERGHAHN BOOKS.

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 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. Index, bib, notes, 345pp, USA. HEINEMANN INC.

The history and current state of sculpture in Tanzania. Col & b/w ill, index, iii, 126pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PULISHING.

Essential works from the artist's output over several decades, including photographs taken from his studio. Includes an interview with Sarenco. 143pp, IN ENGLISH & ITALIAN, ITALY. SKIRA.

Using the experiences of the Hadzabe, an increasingly marginalised group of hunter gatherers, the author shows the effects of land reforms on Tanzanian communities and discusses the reforms needing to take place so that other societies do not find themselves landless. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. Bib, 96pp, DENMARK. IWGIA, 8790730267

Provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. 336pp, USA. CALIFORNIA U P.

Studies done by the Reproductive Health Study Group at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The essays look at changes in modern society, highlighting the erosion of customary institutions that regulate procreation and express the meaning of gender and marriage. Statistics, notes, b/w photographs, map, 271pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

Based on the author's fieldwork among the Iraqw of Tanzania, explores how the ideology of development affects people's actions, from what crops to plant, to what to wear and do at their weddings, and considers too how issues of development play out between elders and juniors, men and women, and wealthy and poor. Index, bib, b/w photos, 196pp, USA. WESTVIEW.

Digital reprint of this classic anthropological account by a former district commissioner in Tanganyika. Index, b/w illus, 349pp, UK. FRANK CASS.

Essays on Africa's highest mountain, exploring how its biodiversity has come under demographic and tourist pressures, and its role in Chagga identity. Col illus, 376pp, TANZANIA . MKUKI NA NYOTA

Comical, cartoon look at East Africa's famous garment. No pagination, ZANZIBAR. GALLERY PUBLICATIONS NETQUOTEVAR:ZANZIBAR.

A survey of the society, economy and art of the Makonde of southeast Tanzania and northeast Mozambique. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 082392016X

Malangatana's most famous works of art are reproduced in this volume revealing the dynamic, nightmarish quality of his paintings and drawings. Also includes several essays on his life and work and a biography. 224pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PULISHING.

An ethnographic study of health, birth, motherhood and fertility in the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania, asking how maternal health risk is constructed culturally, both officially and unofficially. Index, refs, notes, xxii, 303pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, 0472030272

A study of Swahili music and identity. The author looks at how traditional dance, `ngoma', urban jazz, `dansi' and Swahili poetry `taarab' have shaped colonial and post colonial identities and have transmitted National Culture. Includes CD, song text translations and discography. Index, refs, gloss, notes, notation, tables, b/w photos and illus, maps, xviii, 417pp, USA. CHICAGO U P.

Ernest M, Kongola, a retired educator living in Dodoma, Tanzania, has devoted much of the last twenty years to preserving the history of his people, the Gogo. He has produced seven volumes of clan histories, biographies, accounts of important events, and descriptions of customs and traditions. Maddox demonstrates how the past is constructed by critical actors like Ernest Kongola as part of an ongoing process of constructing the present. By performing history as a public figure, he defines more than just himself and his place in the social order of modern Tanzania; he defines his class. He consciously seeks to redefine social norms and cultural practices and to regularize them with Christianity and secular nationalism. In doing so he participates in the creation of both a national, Tanzanian modernity and a particular, Gogo one. 208pp, USA. HEINEMANN USA.

A study of contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community in Southern Tanzania setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context. BNS, 198pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0521621895

In colonial Tanganyika, when housework was transformed into wage labour, the only available labour force was predominantly male, so men became domestic servants and even nursemaids to babies. Paradoxically there were also militant domestics, in an occupation usually characterised by passivity and inability to organise. Exploring the institution of domestic service, the author discloses processes of postcolonial class formation both as exploitation and cultural elaboration. Notes, bib, index, x, 222pp, UK. EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn from the global circulation of hip hop music, fashion, and celebrity. Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barber-shops grapples with the implications of globalization and neo-liberalism for urban youth in Africa today, exploring urban Tanzanians' complex, new ways of understanding their place in the world. 280pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A survey of the society, history, land and religion of the Sukuma of Tanzania. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919927

A collection of ethnic group histories written by authors from

the Mara region of Tanzania, including the closely related groups of Ikizu, Sizaki, Ikoma, Ngoreme, Nata, Ishenyi and Tatoga. NETHERLANDS. BRILL, 9004126252

Showcases the sculpture, paintings and etchings of one of Tanzania's best known artists. Large format, many col ill, bib, 103pp, TANZANIA. MISC TANZANIAN PUBLISHERS.

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The third volume written by the Teenage Reproductive Health Study Group based in the University of Dar es Salaam. This study is based on the narratives of parents, grandparents and youths of the Pare people in the north and the Ngoni and Yao people in the south of Tanzania and focuses on the difficulties faced by parents who are expected to guide their children to adulthood and the widening generation gap. Includes examples of counselling between generations and descriptions of rites of marriage, initiation and parenthood. Refs, b/w illus, charts, 152pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE, 9171065229