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The mobile workshop [electronic resource] : the tsetse fly and African knowledge production / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga.

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How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Other Authors: Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2018.
Series:MIT Press.
Subjects:
Tsetse-flies > Control > Social aspects > Zimbabwe.
Tsetse-flies > Control > Zimbabwe > History.
Tsetse-flies > Ecology.
Traditional ecological knowledge > Zimbabwe.
Ethnoecology > Zimbabwe.
Knowledge management > Zimbabwe.
Tsetse-flies.
Insect pests > Control.
Knowledge management.
Ethnoecology.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Tsetse-flies > Control.
Zimbabwe.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Before we begin: introducing mhesvi and ruzivo rwemhesvi
  • How vanhu managed tsetse
  • Translation into science and policy
  • Knowing a fly
  • How to trap a fly
  • Attacking fly from within: parasitization and sterilization
  • Exposing the fly to its enemies
  • Cordon sanitaire: prophylactic settlement
  • Traffic control: a surveillance system for unwanted passengers
  • Starving the fly
  • The coming of the organochlorine pesticide
  • Bombing flies
  • The work of ground spraying: incoming machines in vatema's hands
  • DDT, pollution, and gomarara: a muted debate
  • Chemoprophylactics
  • Aftermaths
  • A conclusion: Vatema as intellectual agents.

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