Synopses & Reviews
. . . this book might well be the text that sets a new and powerful standard for the writing of 20th-century African history in general and the social history of African agriculture in particular. - Luise White, Emory University
Cutting Down Trees is about local responses to global processes of change. This major study traces detailed changes in the agricultural system of Zambia's Northern Province over a period of 100 years. The authors assess the ecological, social, and political changes affecting the region, and relate current development initiatives to long-run interventions. Drawing on their extensive research experience, Moore and Vaughan have produced a detailed examination of the changing nature of gender relations, household production, and nutrition.
Synopsis
Cutting Down Trees is about local responses to global processes of change. This major study traces detailed changes in the agricultural system of Zambia's Northern Province over a period of 100 years. The authors assess the ecological, social, and political changes affecting the region, and relate current development initiatives to long-run interventions. Drawing on their extensive research experience, Moore and Vaughan have produced a detailed examination of the changing nature of gender relations, household production, and nutrition.
Synopsis
This major study traces detailed changes in the agricultural system of Zambia's Northern Province over a period of one hundred years.
Synopsis
Cutting Down Trees is about local responses to global processes of change. This major study traces detailed changes in the agricultural system of Zambia's Northern Province over a period of 100 years. The authors assess the ecological, social, and political changes affecting the region, and relate current development initiatives to long-run interventions. Drawing on their extensive research experience, Moore and Vaughan have produced a detailed examination of the changing nature of gender relations, household production, and nutrition.
Synopsis
This major study traces detailed changes in the agricultural system of Zambia's Northern Province over a period of one hundred years.
About the Author
Henrietta L. Moore is Reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She previously taught at the Universities of Kent and Cambridge. She has conducted major fieldwork in Kenya and Zambia and has published extensively in the field of feminist and social theory.Megan Vaughan is Rhodes lecturer in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Oxford. She previously taught at the University of Malawi and has conducted extensive research into the social and economic histories of Malawi and Zambia, and into the history of colonial medicine in Africa.
Table of Contents
The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: History and Anthropology
The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: Ecology and Agriculture
Relishing Porridge: The Gender Politics of Food
Cultivators and Colonial Officers: Food Supply and the Politics of Marketing
Developing Men: The Creation of the Progressive Farmer
Migration and Marriage
Working for Salt: Nutrition in the 1980s
From Millet to Maize: Gender and Household Labor in the 1980s. References.