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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Agriculture, ecology, kinship and gender: A social and economic history of Tanzania's corridor 500 BC to 1900 AD Abstract: This dissertation explores the historical connections among fourteen ethnic groups in southwestern Tanzania's Rukwa and Mbeya regions. In this territory between lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa, Bantu migrants began to settle as early as 2500 years ago. The historical evidence is derived from an interdisciplinary methodology. Languages are herein compared and analyzed to illuminate historical divergences between communities of speakers which have shared roots in a common ancestral language community. The fact that these historical communities were primarily agricultural economically means that many aspects of social, cultural, and political life were influenced by agricultural cycles, ideologies, and practices. In tracing the vocabulary related specifically to agriculture the dissertation demonstrates the ways in which those various ancestral communities and their descendants began to differentiate and specialize economically. The economic change coincided and overlapped with cultural change which is also reflected in the vocabularies. |
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