MARC details
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17888950 |
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OSt |
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20181012150914.0 |
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130917s2014 maua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2013036289 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780262027243 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Terms of availability |
Rs.2150 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Indian Institute for Human Settlements-Bangalore |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
306.46096 MAV |
| Edition number |
23 |
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012320 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1972- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Transient workspaces : |
| Remainder of title |
technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
The MIT Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
c2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 296 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - Content type term (R) |
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text |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - Media Type (R) |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) |
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volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Mobility studies |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Guided mobility<br/>The professoriate of the hunt<br/>The coming of the gun<br/>Tsetse invasions<br/>The professoriate of the hunt and the Tsetse fly<br/>Poaching as criminalized innovation<br/>Chimurenga: The transient workspace of self-liberation<br/>The professoriate of the hunt and international ivory poaching<br/>Conclusions : transient workspaces in times of crisis.<br/>The republic of absence<br/>Insectomobile invasions<br/>The professoriate and the insectomobile<br/>The professoriate and the white poacher<br/>The professoriate and chimurenga<br/>The professoriate and international ivory poaching<br/>Conclusions : mobile workshops and transient workspaces in times of crisis. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop field, and in other places where knowledge is made and turned into practical outcomes. African creativities are found in African mobilities. Mavhunga shows the movement of people as not merely conveyances across space but transient workspaces. Taking indigenous hunting in Zimbabwe as one example, he explores African philosophies of mobilities as spiritually guided and of the forest as a sacred space. Viewing the hunt as guided mobility, Mavhunga considers interesting questions of what constitutes technology under regimes of spirituality. He describes how African hunters extended their knowledge traditions to domesticate the gun, how European colonizers, with no remedy of their own, turned to indigenous hunters for help in combating the deadly tsetse fly, and examines how wildlife conservation regimes have criminalized African hunting rather than enlisting hunters (and their knowledge) as allies in wildlife sustainability. The hunt, Mavhunga writes, is one of many criminalized knowledges and practices to which African people turn in times of economic or political crisis. He argues that these practices need to be decriminalized and examined as technologies of everyday innovation with a view toward constructive engagement, innovating with Africans rather than for them. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Material culture |
| Geographic subdivision |
Africa. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Subsistence hunting |
| Geographic subdivision |
Africa. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Economic anthropology |
| Geographic subdivision |
Africa. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book |
