The mobile workshop : the tsetse fly and African knowledge production

The mobile workshop the tsetse fly and African knowledge production

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, 1972- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press 2018.
Colección:MIT Press scholarship online.
Materias:
Tsetse-flies > Control > Social aspects > Zimbabwe.
Tsetse-flies > Control > Zimbabwe > History.
Tsetse-flies > Ecology.
Traditional ecological knowledge > Zimbabwe.
Indigenous peoples > Ecology > Zimbabwe.
Knowledge management > Zimbabwe.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422990006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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