Facing Kirinyaga : a social history of forest commons in southern Mount Kenya
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Facing Kirinyaga : a social history of forest commons in southern Mount Kenya
(IT studies in indigenous knowledge and development)
Intermediate Technology Publications, c1995
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアジア専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-152)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Examines the management and use of common-property forests, groves and trees on southern Mount Kenya, demonstrating the long-standing relationships between Kenyans and their forest resources - and the connections between anthropology and forestry. This book is published in the IT Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development series.
Table of Contents
- The Contested Commons
- Kirinyaga: the ecological and historical setting
- Indigenous forest management and agroforestry in Ndia and Gichugu
- Conquest and concessions: the rise of British control, 1885 to 1915
- Contested forest claims 1925 -- 1940
- Colonial forest management: 1911 -- 1952
- From Mau Mau to independence: southern Mount Kenya, 1952 - 1963
- Southern Mount Kenya since independence: the first quarter century, 1963 to 1988
- Sacred groves and social change: the decline of communal bonds
- Njukiine and other woodland: the fate of small forests.
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