The Culture of Colonialism: The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru

by T. O. Beidelman

Overview

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 problems as it extended its authority into rural areas and shows how these problems persisted even after African independence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253002082
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	06/27/2012
Series:	African Systems of Thought
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

T. O. Beidelman is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. He is author of Colonial Evangelism: A Socio-historical Study of an East African Mission at the Grassroots (IUP, 1982); The Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought (IUP, 1986); and The Cool Knife: Metaphors of Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Colonialism and Anthropology
Part 1. History
1. Kaguru and Colonial History: The Rise and Fall of Indirect Rule
Part 2. Colonial Life
2. Ukaguru 1957–58
3. The Kaguru Native Authority
4. Court Cases: Order and Disorder
5. Subversions and Diversions: 1957–58
6. The World Beyond: Kaguru Marginality in a Plural World, 1957–61
Part 3. How It Ended and Where It Went
Epilogue: Independence and After
Conclusion

Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Emory University - Ivan Karp

Personal and engaged while trying to make sense of a contradictory and exclusionary world.

Editorial Reviews

We are fortunate to have this book. Not only is it a very useful addition to colonial studies, but it also demonstrates the value of decades of teaching and writing in assessing the centuries-long trajectory of political institutions in one area of Tanzania.

Journal of African History

Spring 2014

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

This volume is a handsome addition to Beidelman's scholarship and serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students of colonialism, anthropology, political science, and African history.

American Ethnologist

Although the Kaguru have been a backwater in world affairs, Beidelman's extensive contributions have made them a major subject of African studies. An important addition to understanding the local and global in anthropology. . . . Highly recommended.

Choice

"This volume is a handsome addition to Beidelman’s scholarship and serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students of colonialism, anthropology, political science, and African history." —American Ethnologist

From the Publisher

"Personal and engaged while trying to make sense of a contradictory and exclusionary world." —Ivan Karp, Emory University

Ivan Karp