The Mobile Workshop The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production - Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, 1972-; Project Muse. (MIT Press, 2018)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Knowledge management -- Zimbabwe; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Zimbabwe; Traditional ecological knowledge -- Zimbabwe; Tsetse-flies -- Ecology; Tsetse-flies -- Control -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe; Tsetse-flies -- Control -- Zimbabwe -- History; Electronic books