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Shetler, Jan Bender.

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The landscapes of memory: A history of social identity in the western Serengeti, Tanzania.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The landscapes of memory: A history of social identity in the western Serengeti, Tanzania./
Author:	Shetler, Jan Bender.
Description:	614 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: A, page: 2146.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-06A.
Subject:	History, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9837454
ISBN:	0591910314

The landscapes of memory: A history of social identity in the western Serengeti, Tanzania.
Shetler, Jan Bender.

The landscapes of memory: A history of social identity in the western Serengeti, Tanzania. - 614 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: A, page: 2146.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 1998.

This dissertation analyzes changes in social identity from the distant past to the early colonial years in the western Serengeti, Mara Region, Tanzania, through an interpretation of oral tradition. My analysis of the core spatial images of oral tradition demonstrates the link between different ways of representing space and historical changes in social identity. Multiple social identities grounded in the ecological diversity of the region developed out of long-term social processes based on the elaboration of generative principles of social organization. The generative principles of gender, economic production, clan, lineage, generation-set, age-set and ethnicity produced various kinds of social identities and institutions according to the historical context. Social identities changed profoundly at the end of the nineteenth century when an era of ecological disasters caused western Serengeti people to undertake major social transformations. They responded to the crises of this period of stress by renovating their systems of age-set organization and by redefining the criteria for ethnic identity, not only to ensure their survival but to convert the difficulties of the early years of colonialism into prosperous ones.

ISBN: 0591910314Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017555
History, African.

The landscapes of memory: A history of social identity in the western Serengeti, Tanzania.
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520 $a "The landscapes of memory" refers to the way in which memories about the past are stored in spatial form. Oral traditions represent the past through spatial images that correspond to particular forms of social identity. An interpretation of the core spatial images of oral tradition provides the historian with a culturally grounded representation of social processes in the past. A representation of the past reconstructed through other forms of evidence like archaeology, historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, ecology and written sources demonstrates an amazing congruence with the historical understanding afforded by oral tradition. This dissertation seeks to understand the past, as much as possible, from the perspective and categories of local historical consciousness. The spatial analysis of oral tradition contributes to the historical reconstruction of the precolonial past in Africa and social history elsewhere in the world, particularly in places such as the Mara Region where historians must rely almost exclusively on oral tradition as a primary source.
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