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ecology and history Stephen Dovers, Ruth Edgecombe, and Bill Guest, eds. South Africa’s Environmental History Causes and Comparisons “A worthwhile and rewarding read for anyone interested in environmental history, and not only that of South Africa.” —International Journal of African Historical Studies Contents: Part I: INTRODUCTION Environmental history in southern Africa: An overview by Jane Carruthers PART II Essays in South African Environmental History The colonial ecological revolution in South Africa: The Case of Kuruman by Nancy Jacobs • White settlers’ impact on the environment in Durban, 1845–70 by Beverly Ellis • ‘The titihoya does not cry here anymore’: The crisis in the homestead economy in colonial Natal by John Lambert • ‘I can see my umuzi where I now am…I had fields over there but now I have none’: An ecological context for izimpi zemibango in the Pinetown district in South Africa, 1920–36 by Jabulani Sitole • Environmental origins of the Pondoland revolt by William Beinart • The emergence of privately grown industrial tree plantations by Harald Witt • Technology and Ecology in the Karoo: A century of windmills, wire and changing farming practice by Sean Archer • ‘Our irrepressible fellow colonist’: The biological invasion of Prickly Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) in the Eastern Cape, c. 1890–c. 1910 by Lance van Sittert • Fire and the South African Grassland Biome by John McAllister • Wakkerstroom: Grasslands, fire and war – past perspectives, present issues by Elna Kotze • The dynamics of ecological change in an era of political transformations: An environmental history of the Eastern Shores of Lake St. Lucia by Georgina Thompson PART III Commentaries and Comparisons South African environmental history in the African context by William Beinart • Commonalities and contrasts, pasts and presents: An Australian view by Stephen Dovers • Environment and history in South America and South Africa by John McNeill • ‘Degradation narratives’ and ‘population time bombs’: Myths and realities about African environments by Gregory Maddox • The colonial eco-drama: resonant themes in the environmental history of southern Africa and South Asia by Ravi Rajan 2003 329 pages 216. pb 978-0-8214-1498-9 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 Diana K. Davis Resurrecting the Granary of Rome Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa Winner of the GEORGE PERkINS MARSH PRIZE & the MERIDIAN BOOk AWARD “Resurrecting the Granary of Rome integrates the local knowledge of the social scientist with a historian’s examination of the colonial archives to provide a remarkably sure-handed reinterpretation of the ecohistorical aims of French colonialism in North Africa and its lasting legacy.” —Edmund Burke III, coeditor of Orientalism’s Histories “Diana Davis has provided an outstanding contribution to the field of comparative environmental history. Informed by history, political philosophy, anthropology, forestry, and strikingly, art history—as well as Davis’s own field of geography—Resurrecting the Granary of Rome will provide a crucial touchstone for comparison to works on sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.” African Studies Review 2007 312 pages 217. hc 978-0-8214-1751-5 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 218. pb 978-0-8214-1752-2 $28.95 SPECIAL $23 20 african studiEs 2012 Christopher A. Conte Highland Sanctuary Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains A CHOiCE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE “In this truly groundbreaking study, Conte provides a temporal vision of the area that, in the author’s words, ‘joins natural and human history in a way that illuminates the paradoxes inherent in landscapes.’ He demonstrates that in the precolonial millennia, indigenous agriculturalists and pastoralists adapted to the rich environment, while a brief colonial and immediate postcolonial era ravaged the forest through massive logging operations, resulting in deforestation. This destructive period was followed by the inevitable onset of conservation efforts to preserve what now remains. As Conte wisely observes, the local communities will now have to bear the burden of these latest efforts to affect the environment. This fascinating study deserves the attention of a wide variety of scholars and development experts. Highly recommended.”—Choice 2004 256 pages 219. hc 978-0-8214-1553-5 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 220. pb 978-0-8214-1554-2 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 David M. Anderson Eroding the Commons The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, kenya, 1890s–1963 “This book is a most important addition to the field of African history and related thematic fields of environmental history, political history, and (but to a lesser degree) the history of science. [It] is a brilliantly researched and written book . . . an ample demonstration of the value of local stories to illuminate global trends.”—Jim McCann 2003 352 pages 221. hc 978-0-8214-1479-8 $52.95 SPECIAL $42 222. pb 978-0-8214-1480-4 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES Kate B. Showers Imperial Gullies Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho “Showers shows how local people understood that colonial contour conservation methods and road building actually stimulated gully erosion, something colonial scientists failed to realize. Overall it is undoubtedly one of the most important books written to date on any part of the environmental history of Africa. Moreover it stands out in the discipline of environmental history in general as an unusually sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory power.”—Richard H. Grove “This is a first-of-a-kind book as the author has taken a historical approach to the subject, and has combined data from archival research, oral histories, and extensive fieldwork. This book makes it clear that rural people must be involved in soil conservation decisions in the future. It should interest soil scientists and conservationists, as well as social scientists and those interested in African history.”—Choice 2005 376 pages 223 hc 978-0-8214-1613-6 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 224. pb 978-0-8214-1614-3 $27.95 SPECIAL $22 Jacob A. Tropp, Natures of Colonial Change See Page 4. Joseph Morgan Hodge Triumph of the Expert Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial policy and thinking and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies in the late colonial and postcolonial period. Joseph Morgan Hodge examines the way that development as a framework of ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the strategic engagement between science and the state at the climax of the British Empire. Hodge looks at the structural constraints, bureaucratic fissures, and contradictory imperatives that beset and ultimately overwhelmed the late colonial development mission in sub-Saharan Africa, south and southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. 2007 408 pages 225. hc 978-0-8214-1717-1 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 226. pb 978-0-8214-1718-8 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 William Beinart and JoAnn McGregor, eds. Social History and African Environments “The volume as a whole speaks to the vitality of environmental history in African history.” —Gregory H. Maddox in International Journal of African Historical Studies Contents: INTRODUCTION by William Beinart & JoAnn McGregor PART I African Environmental Ideas & Practices Hidden Fruits: The Social Ecology of Fruit Trees in Namibia & Angola, 1880s–1990s by Emmanuel Kreike • The Ironies of Plant Transfer: The Case of Prickly Pear in Madagascar by Karen Middleton • Environmental Data & Historical Process: Historical Climatic reconstruction & the Mutapa State, 1450–1862 by Innocent Pikirayi • Women & Environment in African Religion: The Case of Zimbabwe by Terence Ranger • Living with the River: Landscape & Memory in the Zambezi Valley, Northwest Zimbabwe by JoAnn McGregor PART II Colonial Science, the State & African Responses African Environments & Environmental Sciences: The African Research Survey, Ecological Paradigms & British Colonial Development, 1920–40 by Helen Tilley • Soil Conservation Policies in Colonial Kigezi, Uganda: Successful Implementation of an Absence of Resistance by Grace Carswell • Conservation & Resistance in Colonial Malawi: The ‘Dead North’ Revisited by John McCracken • Representations of Custom, Social Identity & Environmental Relations in Central Tanzania, 1926–50 by Ingrid Yngstrom PART III Settlers & Africans; Culture & Nature An Unnatural State: Tourism, Water & Wildlife Photography in the early Kruger National Park by David Bunn • The Ant of the White Soul: Popular Natural History, The Politics of Afrikaner Identity, & the Entomological Writings of Eugène Marais by Sandra Swart • Fido: Dog Tales of Colonialism in Namibia by Robert J. Gordon • Past & Future Landscape Ideology: The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park by Jane Carruthers 2003 352 pages 227. hc 978-0-8214-1537-5 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 228. pb 978-0-8214-1538-2 $27.95 SPECIAL $22
___________ ___________ ecology Michael J. Sheridan and Celia Nyamweru, eds. African Sacred Groves Ecological Dynamics and Social Change Contents: INTRODUCTION by Celia Nyamweru and Michael J. Sheridan • The Dynamics of African Sacred Groves : Ecological, Social & Symbolic Processes by Michael J. Sheridan PART I The Human Ecology of Sacred Groves The Role of Sacred Groves in Biodiversity Conservation in Sierra Leone by Aiah Lebbie & Raymond P. Guries • The Kaya Forests of Coastal Kenya: ‘Remnant Patches’ or Dynamic Entities by Celia Nyamweru, Staline Kibet, Mohammed Pakia & John A. Cooke PART II The Social Organization of Sacred Groves The Socio-politics of Ethiopian Sacred Groves by Tsehai Berhane-Selassie • Behind Sacredness in Madagascar: Rules, Local Interests & Forest Conservation in Bara Country by Nadia Rabesahala Horning • Palaver Trees Reconsidered in the Sengalese Landscape: Arboreal Monuments & Memorials by Eric S. Ross PART III The Symbol of Forests Loggers v. Spirits in the Beng Forest, Côte d’Ivoire: Competing Models by Alma Gottlieb • Are Sacred Forests in Northern Bénin ‘Traditional Conservation Area’?: Examples from the Bassila Region by Ute Siebert • Archeological Perspective on Sacred Groves in Ghana by Gérard Chouin PART IV The Future of African Sacred Groves Legal Recognition of Customary Forests in Uganda: An Approach to Revitalizing Sacred Groves by Abwoli Y. Banana, Joseph Bahati, William Gombya-Ssembajjwe & Nathan Vogt • Are Sacred Groves in Sub-Saharan Africa Safe?: The Legal Status of Forests by Liz Alden Wily 2007 240 pages, illus. 229. hc 978-0-8214-1788-1 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 230. pb 978-0-8214-1789-8 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 NEW Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth Myers, eds., Environment at the Margins See page 5. forthcomiNg spriNg 2012 David Gordon and Shepard Krech, eds. Indigenous knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America Katherine Homewood Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies “A tour de force, if one considers the vast amount of material it covers, and the clear and balanced summaries it provides of recent literature and debates. A compendium of information about cattle-herding groups in Africa, and about approaches to understanding their history and ecology. Clear and well judged summaries of the current state of knowledge.”—David Turton, Senior Associate, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford This study presents a comprehensive survey and analysis of ecology • research in internatioal studies - africa series the literature and debates surrounding African pastoralist societies by a leading anthropologist of African pastoralism. Homewood traces the origins and spread of pastoralism on the African continent and discusses herd biology, pastoralist demography, and the impact of developments and change on pastoralist systems. 2009 320 pages 231. hc 978-0-8214-1840-6 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 232. pb 978-0-8214-1841-3 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 Grace Carswell, Cultivating Success in Uganda See Page 17. Shane Doyle, Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro See page 17. ivor Wilks Forests of Gold Essays on the Akan and the kingdom of Asante “Wilks is willing to take risks, and even make mistakes, for the sake of opening discussion and expanding knowledge . . . Forests of Gold is impressive history. One comes away awed at the level of historical reconstruction Wilks has accomplished, demonstrating a level of analysis that has not been achieved regarding almost any other precolonial African state, and which has been achieved here because of Wilks’s forty years of commitment, sensitivity, integrity, and belief in the profession of history and the history of African peoples.”Donna J.E. Maier, International Journal of African Historical Studies “Wilks’ contribution to our understanding of the history of Asante and that of other Akan-speaking peoples is incalculable. It is evident not only in his own work but in that of the published research of the many talented students he has directed during a long, fruitful career.” —Richard Rathbone, Journal of African History 1995 405 pages 233. pb 978-0-8214-1135-3 $28.95 SPECIAL $23 ___________ rEsEarch in intErnational studiEs: africa sEriEs Books in the series are published with support from the Ohio University National Resource Center for African Studies ___________ NEW Nicholas M. Creary, ed. African Intellectuals and Decolonization African intellectuals and Decolonization addresses the enduring intellectual legacies of European colonialism in Africa while providing scholarly tools to assist in the ongoing processes of decolonizing the Academy and the African continent more broadly. Chapters: We Need a Mau Mau in Mississippi: Malcolm X’s Political Lessons for Today by George Hartley • Nkruhmah/ Lumumba: Representations of Masculinity by Janet Hess • The Emergent Self in South African Black Consciousness Literary Discourse by T. Spreelin MacDonald • The Public Life of Reason: Orchestrating Debate in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton • Setting the Agenda for Decolonizing African Media Systems by Ebenezer Adebisi Olawuyi • The African Renaissance and Discourse Ownership: Challenging Debilitating Discourses in Africa by Steve Odero Ouma • Beyond Gendercentric Models: Restoring Motherhood to Yoruba Discourses of Art and Aesthetics by Oyeronke Oyewumi • Decolonization and the Practice of Philosophy by Tsenay Serequeberhan • Trauma and Narrativity in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun: Privileging Indigenous Knowledge in Writing the Biafran War by Marlene De La Cruz 2004 280 pages 234. pb 978-0-89680-241-4 $26.00 SPECIAL $21 RIS AFRICA SERIES, No. 82 Makuchi, The Sacred Door and Other Stories See Page 6. Makuchi, your Madness, Not Mine See Page 6. Mohamed Adhikari Not White Enough, Not Black Enough Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community “This is a welcome and important book. As with all collective identities, “the South African Coloured community” is both imagined and real, and Adhikari’s analysis of this complex and contested phenomenon is rigorous, nuanced, and perceptive. Highly recommended.”—Choice “Not White Enough, Not Black Enough is one of the few systematic studies of Coloured Identity and the history of the present-day Coloured people of South Africa, a group that has not only been marginalized in most general political and academic discourses, but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions and assumptions. . . . Its preparedness to tackle the hard and controversial questions, which most writers have decided to shy from, makes it a rare contribution.” —Kronos: Journal of Cape History 2005 264 pages 235. pb 978-0-89680-244-5 $26.00 SPECIAL $21 RIS AFRICA SERIES, No. 83 Alamin Mazrui, Swahili beyond the Boundaries See Page 5. George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy, eds. Witchcraft Dialogues Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges “[The editors] provide a sharp-edged introduction that interrogates concepts of witchcraft and the interdisciplinary perspectives available for its analysis, and brilliant case studies provide the grist.”—Choice Contents: INTRODUCTION Contested Domains in the Dialogues of “Witchcraft” by George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy Chapters: African Witchcraft: From Ethnography to Critique by Elias Bongmba • “Witches” as Superior Intellects: Challenging a Cross-Cultural Superstition by Barry Hallen • Sorcery Forces of Life and Death among the Yaka of Congo by René Devisch • Ancestors and Witches: Explanations and the Ideology of Individual Power in Northern Zambia by George Clement Bond • Utsai as Ethical Discourse: A Critique of Power from Mijikenda in Coastal Kenya by Diane M. Cierawy • Truth-on-Balance: Knowing the Opaque Other in Tswapong Wisdom Divination by Richard Werbner • Witchcraft in Modern Africa as Virtualized Boundary Conditions of the Kinship Order by Wim van Binsbergen • Epistemological and Ideological ohioswallow.com 21
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