Maji Maji
Subtitle: lifting the fog of war
By: edited by James Giblin and Jamie Monson.
Contributors: Giblin, James Leonard.; Monson, Jamie.
Series: African social studies series -- v. 20
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9789004183421
Subjects: Maji Maji Uprising, 1905-1907; Maji Maji Uprising, 1905-1907 -- Social aspects; Maji Maji Uprising, 1905-1907 -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section 1: Contexts of communication; title: War of words : the narrative efficacy of medicine in the Maji Maji War / Jamie Monson; title: The Ngindo : exploring the center of the Maji Maji Rebellion / Lorne Larson; title: Section 2: Straddling boundaries; title: The war of the hunters : Maji Maji and the decline of the ivory trade / Thaddeus Sunseri; title: "All people were barbarians to the Askari..." : Askari identity and honor in the Maji Maji War, 1905-1907 / Michelle Moyd; title: Section 3: At the apex of violence : Maji Maji in Songea; title: "Deadly silence predominates in this district" : the Maji Maji War and its aftermath in Ungoni / Heike Schmidt; title: Reexamining the Maji Maji War in Ungoni with a blend of archaeology and oral history / Bertram B.B. Mapunda; title: Section 4: Remembering the complexity of Maji Maji in Njombe; title: Were the Bena traitors? : Maji Maji in Njombe and the context of local alliances made by the Germans / Seth I. Nyagava; title: Taking oral sources beyond the documentary record of Maji Maji : the example of the "War of Korosani" at Yakobi, Njombe / James Giblin; title: Section 5: The aftermath : memory and underdevelopment; title: Sudden disaster and slow change : Maji Maji and the long-term history of southeast Tanzania / Felicitas Becker.