Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tribute and Dependency in Late Nineteenth-Century Shambaai -- 3. Healing the Land and Harming the Land -- 4. Alternative Paths to Social Health in the Precolonial Kingdom -- 5. Colonial Rule and the Fate of the Intellectuals -- 6. Royal Domination and Peasant Resistance, 1947-1957 -- 7. The Struggle over Erosion Control: Women's Farming and the Politics of Subsistence -- 8. Gender, Slavery, and Chiefship: Peasant Attempts to Create an Alternative Discourse -- 9. Chiefs and Bureaucrats: Independence and the Fate of the Intellectuals
10. Rain in Independent Tanzania: A Drama Remembered but Not Performed -- Notes -- List of Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index
