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Author Shetler, Jan Bender.

Title Telling our own stories : local histories from South Mara, Tanzania / by Jan Bender Shetler.

Imprint Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  967.827 Sh59t 2003    ---  Available
Description xii, 334 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series African sources for African history, 1567-6951 ; v. 4
Bibliography Includes bibliography (p. [327]-331) and index.
Language In English and Swahili.
Contents Historical context of South Mara narratives. History of the Ikizu and Sizaki / P. M. Mturi, S. Sasora -- Short histories of the Ishenyi, Ikoma and Tatoga peoples / Daniel Msai Sattima, the Ishenyi Council, Yusuph Mboi, Samson Keroto and the Tatoga elders -- Three histories of the Ngoreme / Phillipo Haimati, Mwalimu Mambi, Apolinari Maro Makore -- Oral and shorter written texts of key traditions : Ikizu, Nata, Ikoma, Ishenyi, Ngoreme and Tatoga.
Subject Mara Region (Tanzania) -- Civilization.
Oral tradition -- Tanzania -- Mara Region.
Group identity -- Tanzania -- Serengeti District -- History.
Oral tradition -- Tanzania -- Serengeti District.
Swahili language -- Texts.
Serengeti District (Tanzania) -- Civilization.
ISBN 9004126252 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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