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Author Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, 1972- editor.

Title The mobile workshop : the tsetse fly and African knowledge production / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 412 pages) : illustrations.
Series The MIT Press Ser.
MIT Press Ser.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface: Before we begin: introducing mhesvi and ruzivo rwemhesvi -- How vanhu managed tsetse -- Translation into science and policy -- Knowing a fly -- How to trap a fly -- Attacking fly from within: parasitization and sterilization -- Exposing the fly to its enemies -- Cordon sanitaire: prophylactic settlement -- Traffic control: a surveillance system for unwanted passengers -- Starving the fly -- The coming of the organochlorine pesticide -- Bombing flies -- The work of ground spraying: incoming machines in vatema's hands -- DDT, pollution, and gomarara: a muted debate -- Chemoprophylactics -- Aftermaths -- A conclusion: Vatema as intellectual agents.
Summary How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
Note Print version record.
Local Note MIT Press DTL OA MIT Titles
Subject Tsetse-flies -- Control -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe.
Tsetse-flies -- Control -- Zimbabwe -- History.
Tsetse-flies -- Ecology.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Zimbabwe.
Ethnoecology -- Zimbabwe.
Knowledge management -- Zimbabwe.
Tsetse Flies.
Insect Control.
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena.
Knowledge Management.
Zimbabwe.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00970226
Knowledge management. (OCoLC)fst00988184
Traditional ecological knowledge. (OCoLC)fst01153965
Tsetse-flies -- Control. (OCoLC)fst01158332
Tsetse-flies -- Ecology. (OCoLC)fst01158333
Zimbabwe. (OCoLC)fst01209419
Indexed Term SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: 9780262535021 0262535025 (DLC) 2017042764 (OCoLC)1004122820
ISBN 9780262345859 (electronic book)
0262345854 (electronic book)
9780262535021 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0262535025 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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