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Kuria Cattle Raiders - Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier (Paperback)
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Kuria Cattle Raiders - Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier (Paperback)
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"Kuria Cattle Raiders" is about cattle raiding as practiced--both
historically and in the present day--by the agro-pastoralist Kuria
people, whose population straddles the border between Tanzania and
Kenya. Based on field research conducted in the Tarime District
lowlands of northern Tanzania, the book documents and analyzes an
extraordinary transformation in the nature of Kuria cattle raiding
that has occurred over the course of the past century. While in
years past the raiding of other tribes and other Kuria clans was
done for prestige and bridewealth cattle, today the practice is
carried out by heavily armed multiclan and multiethnic gangs that
are highly organized and cash market-oriented. This change, Michael
Fleisher argues, is due to the penetration and evolution of the
colonial economy into the region and the administrative policies of
the post-colonial Tanzanian state.
The reciprocal raiding of cattle by pastoralists has a long and
venerable history in East Africa, but there has been, until now, no
book-length treatment of the practice, and, more importantly, no
detailed case study of the newer, "modern" form of cattle raiding
described here. In addition, the phenomenon of Kuria cattle raiding
conveys significant implications for our understanding of informal
economies and globalization processes.
"Kuria Cattle Raiders" engages issues of theoretical as well as
practical significance for anthropologists, sociologists,
criminologists, cultural ecologists, economic development agencies,
and all those concerned with the pressing issues of globalization
and rapid social and cultural change.
Michael L. Fleisher, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the
Department of Rangeland Resources, Utah State University, is
currently engaged in a study of conflict among pastoralists in
southern Ethiopia as part of a research project jointly
administered by the University of Kentucky, Utah State University,
and Cornell University under a grant from U.S.A.I.D.
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