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Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, 1972-

The Mobile Workshop The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780262345859 0262345854

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Knowledge management--Zimbabwe.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Zimbabwe.
Traditional ecological knowledge--Zimbabwe.
Tsetse-flies--Ecology.
Tsetse-flies--Control--Social aspects--Zimbabwe.
Tsetse-flies--Control--History.--Zimbabwe

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RA641.T7 / .M38 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 614.5/33096891