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Author Gonzales, Rhonda M., author.

Title Societies, religion, and history : central east Tanzanians and the world they created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE / Rhonda M. Gonzales
Published [New York, N.Y.] : Columbia University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 257 pages)
Series Gutenberg-e series
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Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Recasting Early History in Central-East Tanzania -- From Hinterland to Motherland: The Northeast-Coastal Culture Zone -- Ruvu Societies and Worldview -- More than a Stage: Life Position, Gender, and Lineal Power -- Healing the Body: Etiology, Caregivers, and Prevention -- A Tapestry of the Ruvu Past: An Overview to c. 1800 CE -- Illustrations -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography
Summary " ... About early history in central-east Tanzania. Tanzania's central coastal and hinterland regions have been home to peoples of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds for millennia."--Introduction
Notes Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from opening screen (viewed October 17, 2008)
Subject Ruvu (African people) -- Material culture
Ruvu (African people) -- Social life and customs
Historical linguistics -- Tanzania
Bantu languages -- Tanzania -- History
Bantu-speaking peoples -- Tanzania -- History
Ethnology -- Tanzania.
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Antiquities
Bantu languages
Bantu-speaking peoples
Civilization
Ethnology
Historical linguistics
Manners and customs
Religion
SUBJECT Tanzania -- Civilization
Tanzania -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132372
Tanzania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132378
Tanzania -- Social life and customs
Tanzania -- Religion
Subject Tanzania
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231512244
0231512244
0231142420
9780231142427
Other Titles Central east Tanzanians and the world they created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE