RELOCATING MAJI MAJI: THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE AND AUTHORITY IN THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS OF TANZANIA, 1870–1918

JAMIE MONSON

doi:10.1017/S0021853797007123

Abstract

In the summer of 1995, I was hiking in the Uluguru mountains above Morogoro in Tanzania when I met an old man on the path. He was carrying a load of wood poles on his head, and we stopped to talk. I was curious about the visible deforestation on the mountainside, and asked him about the changing forest cover. He told me the following story.

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RELOCATING MAJI MAJI: THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE AND AUTHORITY IN THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS OF TANZANIA, 1870–1918

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