Homage to Peasant Smallholders :: Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi.
This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi. It explores the relationship between the people of the Shire Highlands and the natural landscape - in all its diversity...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi. It explores the relationship between the people of the Shire Highlands and the natural landscape - in all its diversity and dynamic complexity. It is an ethnographic study focussing specifically on the peasant-smallholders of the Highlands, who constitute around 80 per cent of the current population and their complex, multi-faceted relationship to the land and its diverse biota. This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi. It explores the relationship between the people of the Shire Highlands and the natural landscape - in all its diversity and dynamic complexity. It is an ethnographic study focussing specifically on the peasant-smallholders of the Highlands, who constitute around 80 per cent of the current population and their complex, multi-faceted relationship to the land and its diverse biota. |
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| 505 | 8 | |a The Larger Mammals of the Shire Highlands -- Chapter Two -- African Humanism and Ethnic Identity -- Prologue -- A Sense of Belonging? -- An African Identity -- Ethnicity and Chewa Nationalism -- The Ethnic Communities of the Shire Highlands -- The Nyanja/Mang'anja -- The Yao (Yawo) -- The Lomwe -- Chapter Three -- Patterns of Social Life -- Prologue -- The Territorial Chiefdoms -- Traditional Authorities of the Shire Highlands -- The Village Community -- Social Change and Matriliny -- The Sorority Group -- Kinship Categories and Marriage -- Kinship Terms, Relating Specifically to the Female Ego | |
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| contents | Cover -- Copyrihgt page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Fieldwork Studies -- Peasant-Smallholders -- Evolutionary Naturalism -- The Study of Things -- Chapter One -- The Shire Highlands -- 1.1 Prologue -- 1.2 Geomorphology and Climate -- 1.3. The Vegetation of the Shire Highlands -- 1.3.1 Brachystegia Woodlands -- 1.3.2 Montane Evergreen Forests and Associates -- 1. Montane Evergreen Forests -- 2. Submontane Forest -- 3. The Riparian Forests -- 1.4 The Lake Chilwa Basin and the Phalombe Plain -- 1.5 Wildlife of the Shire Highlands The Larger Mammals of the Shire Highlands -- Chapter Two -- African Humanism and Ethnic Identity -- Prologue -- A Sense of Belonging? -- An African Identity -- Ethnicity and Chewa Nationalism -- The Ethnic Communities of the Shire Highlands -- The Nyanja/Mang'anja -- The Yao (Yawo) -- The Lomwe -- Chapter Three -- Patterns of Social Life -- Prologue -- The Territorial Chiefdoms -- Traditional Authorities of the Shire Highlands -- The Village Community -- Social Change and Matriliny -- The Sorority Group -- Kinship Categories and Marriage -- Kinship Terms, Relating Specifically to the Female Ego The Family-Household -- Chapter Four -- Land Conflicts and Custormary Land Tenure -- Prologue -- Customary Land Tenure -- The Banda Era -- The Struggle for Land -- Population Density -- The National Land Policy -- Chapter Five -- Smallholder Agriculture -- Prologue -- Soils and Agriculture -- Shifting Cultivation and the Nkhondo ya Mitumbira -- Planting Crops -- Cropping Calendar -- The Agricultural Cycle -- The Agricultural Calendar -- Chapter Six -- Food Plants of the Shire Highlands: Cereals and Pulses -- Prologue -- Cereals -- Maize -- Chimanga (Yao Imanga) [Zea Mays] -- The Millets Rice -- Mpunga (Oryza Sativa) -- Pulses -- Kidney Bean -- Chimbamba (Yao Mbwanda) [Phaseolus Vulgaris] -- Lima Bean -- Mayemba (Phaseolus lunatus) -- Soya Bean -- Soya (Glycine Max) -- Green Gram -- Mphodza (Yao Mbweso) [Vigna Radiata (Syn. Phaseolus aureus)] -- Cowpea -- Mseula/Khobwe (Yao Ngunde) [Vigna Unguiculata] -- Groundbean -- Nzama (Yao Njama) [Voandzeia Subterranea] -- Groundnut -- Mtedza (Yao Mtega) [Arachis Hypgaea] -- Pigeon Pea -- Nandolo (Yao Mbelemende) [Cajanus Cajan] -- Chickpea -- Nchana [Cicer Arietinum] -- Field Pea -- Nsawawa (Yao Sawawa) [Pisum Sativum] Hyacinth Bean -- Nkhungudzu (Yao Ngwingwisu) [Lablab Purporeia Syn. Dolichos Lablab] -- Velvet Bean -- Kalongonda (Yao Tangali) [Stizolobium Aterrimum (Syn. Mucuna Puruiens var Utilis)] -- Chapter Seven -- Food Plants of the Shire Highlands: Tubers and Vegetables -- Prologue -- Tubers -- Sweet Potato -- Mbatata (Ipomoea Batatas) -- Irish Potato -- Kachewere (Solanum Tuberosum) -- Cassava -- Chinangwa (Yao Inangwa) [Manihot Esculenta (Syn. Manihot Utilissima)] -- Coco Yam -- Madumbe (Colocasia esculenta) -- Yam -- Mpama (Yao Lipeta) [Dioscorea spp] -- Vegetables or Dimba Crops Pumpkin -- Dzungu (Yao Liungu) [Cucurbita Maxima] |
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| spelling | MORRIS, BRIAN. Homage to Peasant Smallholders : Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. [S.l.] : LUVIRI PRESS, 2022. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2022. 1 online resource. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Description based on print version record. Cover -- Copyrihgt page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Fieldwork Studies -- Peasant-Smallholders -- Evolutionary Naturalism -- The Study of Things -- Chapter One -- The Shire Highlands -- 1.1 Prologue -- 1.2 Geomorphology and Climate -- 1.3. The Vegetation of the Shire Highlands -- 1.3.1 Brachystegia Woodlands -- 1.3.2 Montane Evergreen Forests and Associates -- 1. Montane Evergreen Forests -- 2. Submontane Forest -- 3. The Riparian Forests -- 1.4 The Lake Chilwa Basin and the Phalombe Plain -- 1.5 Wildlife of the Shire Highlands The Larger Mammals of the Shire Highlands -- Chapter Two -- African Humanism and Ethnic Identity -- Prologue -- A Sense of Belonging? -- An African Identity -- Ethnicity and Chewa Nationalism -- The Ethnic Communities of the Shire Highlands -- The Nyanja/Mang'anja -- The Yao (Yawo) -- The Lomwe -- Chapter Three -- Patterns of Social Life -- Prologue -- The Territorial Chiefdoms -- Traditional Authorities of the Shire Highlands -- The Village Community -- Social Change and Matriliny -- The Sorority Group -- Kinship Categories and Marriage -- Kinship Terms, Relating Specifically to the Female Ego The Family-Household -- Chapter Four -- Land Conflicts and Custormary Land Tenure -- Prologue -- Customary Land Tenure -- The Banda Era -- The Struggle for Land -- Population Density -- The National Land Policy -- Chapter Five -- Smallholder Agriculture -- Prologue -- Soils and Agriculture -- Shifting Cultivation and the Nkhondo ya Mitumbira -- Planting Crops -- Cropping Calendar -- The Agricultural Cycle -- The Agricultural Calendar -- Chapter Six -- Food Plants of the Shire Highlands: Cereals and Pulses -- Prologue -- Cereals -- Maize -- Chimanga (Yao Imanga) [Zea Mays] -- The Millets Rice -- Mpunga (Oryza Sativa) -- Pulses -- Kidney Bean -- Chimbamba (Yao Mbwanda) [Phaseolus Vulgaris] -- Lima Bean -- Mayemba (Phaseolus lunatus) -- Soya Bean -- Soya (Glycine Max) -- Green Gram -- Mphodza (Yao Mbweso) [Vigna Radiata (Syn. Phaseolus aureus)] -- Cowpea -- Mseula/Khobwe (Yao Ngunde) [Vigna Unguiculata] -- Groundbean -- Nzama (Yao Njama) [Voandzeia Subterranea] -- Groundnut -- Mtedza (Yao Mtega) [Arachis Hypgaea] -- Pigeon Pea -- Nandolo (Yao Mbelemende) [Cajanus Cajan] -- Chickpea -- Nchana [Cicer Arietinum] -- Field Pea -- Nsawawa (Yao Sawawa) [Pisum Sativum] Hyacinth Bean -- Nkhungudzu (Yao Ngwingwisu) [Lablab Purporeia Syn. Dolichos Lablab] -- Velvet Bean -- Kalongonda (Yao Tangali) [Stizolobium Aterrimum (Syn. Mucuna Puruiens var Utilis)] -- Chapter Seven -- Food Plants of the Shire Highlands: Tubers and Vegetables -- Prologue -- Tubers -- Sweet Potato -- Mbatata (Ipomoea Batatas) -- Irish Potato -- Kachewere (Solanum Tuberosum) -- Cassava -- Chinangwa (Yao Inangwa) [Manihot Esculenta (Syn. Manihot Utilissima)] -- Coco Yam -- Madumbe (Colocasia esculenta) -- Yam -- Mpama (Yao Lipeta) [Dioscorea spp] -- Vegetables or Dimba Crops Pumpkin -- Dzungu (Yao Liungu) [Cucurbita Maxima] This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi. It explores the relationship between the people of the Shire Highlands and the natural landscape - in all its diversity and dynamic complexity. It is an ethnographic study focussing specifically on the peasant-smallholders of the Highlands, who constitute around 80 per cent of the current population and their complex, multi-faceted relationship to the land and its diverse biota. This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi. It explores the relationship between the people of the Shire Highlands and the natural landscape - in all its diversity and dynamic complexity. It is an ethnographic study focussing specifically on the peasant-smallholders of the Highlands, who constitute around 80 per cent of the current population and their complex, multi-faceted relationship to the land and its diverse biota. Farms, Small. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047327 Petites exploitations agricoles. Project Muse. distributor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96089174 Book collections on Project MUSE. FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3341352 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | MORRIS, BRIAN Homage to Peasant Smallholders : Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. Book collections on Project MUSE. Cover -- Copyrihgt page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Fieldwork Studies -- Peasant-Smallholders -- Evolutionary Naturalism -- The Study of Things -- Chapter One -- The Shire Highlands -- 1.1 Prologue -- 1.2 Geomorphology and Climate -- 1.3. The Vegetation of the Shire Highlands -- 1.3.1 Brachystegia Woodlands -- 1.3.2 Montane Evergreen Forests and Associates -- 1. Montane Evergreen Forests -- 2. Submontane Forest -- 3. The Riparian Forests -- 1.4 The Lake Chilwa Basin and the Phalombe Plain -- 1.5 Wildlife of the Shire Highlands The Larger Mammals of the Shire Highlands -- Chapter Two -- African Humanism and Ethnic Identity -- Prologue -- A Sense of Belonging? -- An African Identity -- Ethnicity and Chewa Nationalism -- The Ethnic Communities of the Shire Highlands -- The Nyanja/Mang'anja -- The Yao (Yawo) -- The Lomwe -- Chapter Three -- Patterns of Social Life -- Prologue -- The Territorial Chiefdoms -- Traditional Authorities of the Shire Highlands -- The Village Community -- Social Change and Matriliny -- The Sorority Group -- Kinship Categories and Marriage -- Kinship Terms, Relating Specifically to the Female Ego The Family-Household -- Chapter Four -- Land Conflicts and Custormary Land Tenure -- Prologue -- Customary Land Tenure -- The Banda Era -- The Struggle for Land -- Population Density -- The National Land Policy -- Chapter Five -- Smallholder Agriculture -- Prologue -- Soils and Agriculture -- Shifting Cultivation and the Nkhondo ya Mitumbira -- Planting Crops -- Cropping Calendar -- The Agricultural Cycle -- The Agricultural Calendar -- Chapter Six -- Food Plants of the Shire Highlands: Cereals and Pulses -- Prologue -- Cereals -- Maize -- Chimanga (Yao Imanga) [Zea Mays] -- The Millets Rice -- Mpunga (Oryza Sativa) -- Pulses -- Kidney Bean -- Chimbamba (Yao Mbwanda) [Phaseolus Vulgaris] -- Lima Bean -- Mayemba (Phaseolus lunatus) -- Soya Bean -- Soya (Glycine Max) -- Green Gram -- Mphodza (Yao Mbweso) [Vigna Radiata (Syn. Phaseolus aureus)] -- Cowpea -- Mseula/Khobwe (Yao Ngunde) [Vigna Unguiculata] -- Groundbean -- Nzama (Yao Njama) [Voandzeia Subterranea] -- Groundnut -- Mtedza (Yao Mtega) [Arachis Hypgaea] -- Pigeon Pea -- Nandolo (Yao Mbelemende) [Cajanus Cajan] -- Chickpea -- Nchana [Cicer Arietinum] -- Field Pea -- Nsawawa (Yao Sawawa) [Pisum Sativum] Hyacinth Bean -- Nkhungudzu (Yao Ngwingwisu) [Lablab Purporeia Syn. Dolichos Lablab] -- Velvet Bean -- Kalongonda (Yao Tangali) [Stizolobium Aterrimum (Syn. Mucuna Puruiens var Utilis)] -- Chapter Seven -- Food Plants of the Shire Highlands: Tubers and Vegetables -- Prologue -- Tubers -- Sweet Potato -- Mbatata (Ipomoea Batatas) -- Irish Potato -- Kachewere (Solanum Tuberosum) -- Cassava -- Chinangwa (Yao Inangwa) [Manihot Esculenta (Syn. Manihot Utilissima)] -- Coco Yam -- Madumbe (Colocasia esculenta) -- Yam -- Mpama (Yao Lipeta) [Dioscorea spp] -- Vegetables or Dimba Crops Pumpkin -- Dzungu (Yao Liungu) [Cucurbita Maxima] Farms, Small. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047327 Petites exploitations agricoles. |
| subject_GND | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047327 |
| title | Homage to Peasant Smallholders : Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. |
| title_auth | Homage to Peasant Smallholders : Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. |
| title_exact_search | Homage to Peasant Smallholders : Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. |
| title_full | Homage to Peasant Smallholders : Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. |
| title_fullStr | Homage to Peasant Smallholders : Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Homage to Peasant Smallholders : Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. |
| title_short | Homage to Peasant Smallholders : |
| title_sort | homage to peasant smallholders land and people of the shire highlands malawi |
| title_sub | Land and People of the Shire Highlands, Malawi. |
| topic | Farms, Small. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047327 Petites exploitations agricoles. |
| topic_facet | Farms, Small. Petites exploitations agricoles. |
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